Pod GO Wireless : Headline :)

pros: great sound, easy to carry around (fits in every normal backpack), easy to edit (even easier with the software)

cons: limited processing capacity if you want more effects (more on that below), wireless connection not perfect but definitly good enough.

I got this as a replacement to my old cheap one from boss which i got in early 2016, about half a year after i started with guitar. I played on a little marshall amp.

My dad has a Line 6 Spider V 60 and a fitting midi floorboard so i was already kind of familiar with the whole setup and knew their modelling amps work.

this pedal board changed everything for me. the amount of sounds you can get out of this is crazy. i play a lot in multiple genres: jazz, rock, pop, metall ... and sometimes i just play clean sounds with an absurd long reverb and then i switch on an overdrive to play a lead ontop.

this machine does everything and i does it great.

the only problem i have is that sometimes i wish i could add more effects. you can jailbreak a preset (youtube is your friend here) easily on pc so you can free up to 3 slots (wah + volume pedal and effect send/return) and add your own configuration. however you could (and most likely will) run out of processing capacity, even without the jailbreak. that little thing can only do so much and the more complex your effects are the faster you will see some effects not being choosable anymore since it would be too much.

however this does not mean that you won't be able to build a lot of setups: you have 128 slots (user presets) and additional 9 (factory presets) available without deleting any of the build in presets. so if you want some more effects on the same preset just copy it to another slot and exchange some effects. alernatively if you already have some effect pedals at home you obviously can put them anywhere with the fx send/return. if you have a pc (and every laptop with win7 or newer does the job) you'll have an even easier time editing the presets. the software is also great for choosing what effect parameter should be on which switch or the pedal on the board and you can even trigger multiple things at once or just change parameters, the possabilities are endless. the colors are also yours to choose so if you don't like the delay to be green than choose another color for it. i personally like the default colors but i like to have some things like high/lowcuts or dB boosts stand out so i find them easier when i need them. for me usually a light blue or a red does the job here but again, it's yours to choose.

I use this not only as an effect pedal but also as an amp, my little marshall amp doesn't get me enough bass :) and also in order to record my guitar into my pc. again, the quality of the sounds is extremely good since it's the exact same effects you get with the helix (just not all of them i think).

This floorboard is portable and i take it with me to school to play in the jazz club once a week and i use it for our shows as well, no problems here. that's what it was designed to do and it does a great job. i just deactivate the internal amp simulation on that one preset and put it before the amp we have in school since im too lazy to connect it to the speakers we have in our music rooms and in the great hall directly (and my teacher probably wouldn't let me either).

if you want a (sort of) cheap pedal board with great sounds and you don't care that it is not perfect since you're not a professional musician than i definitly recommend it. i think that most people who review this as "not good for a big stage" don't get that this product is not for professionals. those people are supposed to buy a helix. this one is for students like myself or for people who play guitar as a hobby and don't want to spend crazy amount of money on gear while having a lot of options.