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Not remotely the same product. The Pod Go has a simple signal path, no midi, no XLR, no amp control. No multiple instruments / dual paths.
Its like comparing a road car with the Merc W10.
Its not even the same sport.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Are they the same amp models/sounds?
But spend any time with a Helix and a Fractal and a Kemper and you'll discover that the model for the, for example, Marshall JCM 800 2203 will sound different on all 3 platforms.
Part of that will be due to the individual physical amp used as the reference point by the maker and a lot of it will be what their algorithm is doing and how it recreates the sound.
An original decades old POD has a Plexi model. So does the current daddy, the Axe-FX 3.
They do not sound the same, and they don't feel similar either.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMVXZYBUhpU
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
The crunch with delay was my favourite tone from that vid.
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
Edit: having listening to the whole thing now I haven’t changed my mind, the tones were just poor IMO. And I often watch Rabea’s reviews and you can tell when he’s genuinely enjoying the gear and digging in rather than saying ‘cool’ and moving to the next preset.
I'm not blown away though. But it's one guy demoing it.
The Helix, Kemper etc are all producing some outstanding sounds and tones, and we are surely almost at a point now where online demo’s are all going to sound fairly similar and just as good as each other? The difference will be using one in the flesh, through our own rigs, and will also come down to form factor etc
I'm expecting advancements in the sound, something that brings us closer to a real amp (because Helix/Kemper are not 100%) and its not happened. Its more advanced in the user interface but the sound quality hasn't moved forward.
So I was expecting/hoping that this product, with the reputation of the company and the time that's passed might give us something that will make me go wow, but it hasn't.
I'm not saying it's not a good product but based on what I've heard so far nothing has convinced me that this is better than the Kemper, which I think is the closest to a real amp.
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
Rabea is a very nice player, but he plays like someone who grew up with "patches" rather than someone who had to wring every nuance out of one sound, like an acoustic guitarist or old school electric player.
That's not a criticism btw, but you can almost always tell a pre- or post-POD kid in a blind test.
If the Kemper is still the best sounding thing about in 20 years I'll be very surprised. The technology will always improve.
https://imgur.com/gallery/ALvMGQj
We'll see. I'm trying to have an open mind!
Maybe it hasn’t progressed, but my point is that surely we’ll get to a point where they all sound amazing/the same?
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922