Line 6 Pod Go vs amp + cheap pedals | Indie and garage rock edition | Which is better?

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What sounds better for indie rock and garage rock guitar tones? Is it the Line 6 Pod Go – possibly the world’s favorite affordable modeler right now – or is it a ‘real’ amp and pedals? That’s what we’re going to find out in this video!

Get the Line 6 Pod Go here:

I set up a couple of presets on the Pod Go to do the best indie and garage rock sounds I could, and then put together an amp/pedals rig to match them. For my tastes, this meant having great clean and overdrive tones, plus some FX: delay, reverb, and an octave pedal for the gnarlier garage rock stuff.

My normal amp of choice is my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200, and because that already costs more than the Pod Go on its own, I decided to try and use some of my cheaper pedals to keep the prices of the two rigs as close as possible! That meant I ended up using my Tone City Durple – a signature pedal for “Danish” Pete Honoré of Andertons fame – for the drive tones. These cost around £45/$50€50 new from Andertons. For the delay, I used the NUX Tape Core Deluxe I got used for €30 (a true bargain, that one was!) and for reverb, the classic TC Electronic Hall Of Fame – which you can easily get for under $100/€100 used. Here's some links to that gear:

H&K Black Spirit 200:
Tone City Durple at Andertons:
Boss OC-5:
NUX Tape Core Deluxe:
TC Electronic Hall Of Fame:

And now, all that’s left to do is play some riffs! I decided to not tell you which rig is which until after the playing part… can you guess which one is which? Leave me a comment about it, as I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:12 Intro and what we’re doing today
01:50 The amp and pedals I’m using

Clean Sounds
04:02 Reference chords on all pickups
04:39 Open indie pop chords
05:06 Indie pop arpeggios
05:24 Ascending droning indie rock chords
05:52 Strokes inspired chord progression

Clean Sounds with ambient delay/reverb
06:32 Atmospheric indie soundscapes
08:06 Bloc Party inspired riffs

Crunch Sounds
08:49 Indie rock rhythm chords riff
09:18 Indie octave chords
09:47 Indie rock barre chords
10:12 Kings Of Leon inspired riff
10:41 Droning indie rock riff
11:06 Edgy indie barre chords
11:35 Indie rock octave chords riff

Garage rock sounds
12:00 Hives inspired garage rock riff
12:16 Black Keys inspired chords
12:46 Country rock ballad arpeggios
13:13 Groovy garage rock progression
13:48 White Stripes inspired riff with octave pedal
14:01 Wolfmother inspired garage rock riff with octave pedal
14:17 High gain indie post rock riff with ambient delay/reverb

14:49 Which rig was the Pod Go?
15:30 How does the Pod Go compare to the amp and pedals?
16:28 Where the amp wins over the Pod Go
17:07 Where the Pod Go wins: ambient FX
17:56 Pod Go limitations: number of FX per preset
18:14 Pod Go limitations: DSP power
19:14 My conclusions: how good is the Pod Go for indie rock?
19:43 Final thoughts and goodbye


My setup was as follows: I ran the Pod Go straight into my Mac and Logic Pro X. For the amp and pedals setup, the Boss OC-5 and the Durple went into the front of the amp, while the Tape Core and the Hall Of Fame were in the FX Loop. I ran the Black Spirit 200 from the Red Box DI into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on any of the sounds was done.

This is the newer version of the Focusrite audio interface I use:


Enjoy!


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