NAM A2 Lite for POD Go
Neural Amp Modeler captures of real amps and pedals, running on the POD Go's own DSP as an amp block, with your drives, delays and reverbs either side.
Unofficial and experimental. Not made or supported by Line 6 or Yamaha Guitar Group. Installing modified firmware is at your own risk and may void your warranty. Back up first, and read Recovery below before you start.
What it gives you
A NAM block
NAM A2 Lite sits in the amp list where Line 6 Elektrik was. Every other amp, cab, effect and IR is unchanged.
Your captures
Convert a .nam file, import it with POD Go Edit like an IR, and pick it with the Model knob. Up to 101 at once.
No cab needed
Most captures include the cab, so the cab block can go and its DSP goes to effects.
Free the fixed blocks
Templates without cab, FX loop or fixed EQ: up to 7 effects around NAM, measured on the unit.
Setting it up
Back up and get the stock firmware
Back up your presets and IRs with POD Go Edit. Keep Line 6's official
POD_Go_v2.50.0_0x6e984472.hxfsomewhere safe: you build from it, and it is your way back.Build the NAM firmware
Drop your stock file here. This page adds NAM A2 Lite to it, in your browser, and gives you the new file to install. Nothing is uploaded: your firmware never leaves this computer, so no Line 6 code is ever shared.
Shown over the stock POD Go boot screen. The overlay holds only this lettering; your POD Go supplies the rest.Technical details
Optional: try it first, without installing
Two files, two jobs: the box above always takes Line 6's stock 2.50 file (every build starts from your own official copy, because Line 6's code can't be shared); the tick box below takes whatever your POD Go runs now, only if that isn't stock.
This page can run the firmware you just built from the POD Go's memory for one session. Nothing is written to the POD Go: turn it off and on and it starts what is installed, as before.
- Use Chrome or Edge on a computer, and quit POD Go Edit and Line 6 Updater: they hold the USB connection.
- Connect the POD Go with USB, turn it on and click Run from RAM. Pick the POD Go in the browser's list. As it restarts, the browser asks twice more: each time click Continue and pick the device it lists.
- If the POD Go isn't in the list, turn it off, hold Page > while you turn it on (update mode), and click Run from RAM again.
What you change during the run (presets, imported IRs) is gone when you turn the POD Go off, so import your captures with the normal firmware first. Knobs can react slowly from RAM; installed, they don't.
Technical details
The first build downloads the build tools (about 15 MB) and takes 30–90 seconds. Keep this tab open until it finishes. It checks your file's fingerprint first, and at the end compares the result with the build the project tested on a POD Go: it says Verified only when every byte matches.
Prefer the command line?
python3 -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install -r requirements-dev.txt .venv/bin/python podgo/build_podgo.py POD_Go_v2.50.0_0x6e984472.hxf
The same build, plus a run of the NAM code in a SHARC simulator against a reference. It writes
build/POD_Go_v2.50.0_NAM_A2_Lite.hxf, the same bytes as this page.Install with Line 6 Updater
Quit POD Go Edit, open Line 6 Updater, choose Choose File and pick the built file. Don't unplug until it has restarted. Presets and IRs stay.
Convert your captures
On the converter page: drop in NAM A2 Lite captures (48 kHz) and download the .wav files. Nothing is uploaded.
Load one and play
Import the .wav into an IR slot with POD Go Edit. In a preset choose NAM A2 Lite as the amp, set Model to the slot (0.0 = slot 1, 0.3 = slot 4) and turn the cab block off.
Preset templates
Import with POD Go Edit. The first three leave out the blocks NAM doesn't need (cab, FX loop, fixed EQ), so the DSP goes to effects; the next two keep the stock layout and drop only the FX loop (and the cab); NAM FX Loop keeps the FX loop for your own pedals, after NAM (off, on footswitch 1). NAM is on IR slot 4; the expression pedal runs volume, with the wah on the toe switch.
| Template | Chain | DSP units |
|---|---|---|
| NAM Blank | Volume, NAM; 9 empty blocks | 3,000 |
| NAM Essentials | Volume, Wah, Minotaur, NAM, Simple Delay, Plate | 5,411 |
| NAM Full Board | Volume, Deluxe Comp, Minotaur, NAM, Simple EQ, Chorus, Vintage Digital, Hall | 6,725 |
| NAM No FX Loop | Stock layout without the FX loop: Wah, Volume, NAM, Cab, EQ; for captures without a cab | 3,886 |
| NAM No FX Loop or Cab | Stock layout without the FX loop or cab: Wah, Volume, NAM, EQ | 3,636 |
| NAM FX Loop | Volume, Wah, NAM, FX Loop (off, footswitch 1); no cab or fixed EQ | 3,536 |
The unit's limits with fixed blocks removed: one each of amp, cab or IR, fixed EQ and FX loop; up to 7 other effects; blocks totalling about 8,000 units. NAM counts as 2,850.
The knobs
POD Go Edit still shows the block as Line 6 Elektrik with Elektrik's knob names; the POD Go shows NAM's.
| On the POD Go | In POD Go Edit | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Input | Drive | Level into the capture, ±20 dB; 5.0 = as recorded |
| Bass · Mid · Treble | Bass · Mid · Treble | Tone stack after the capture, ±12 dB each |
| High Cut | Presence | Top-end roll-off; 10 = open |
| Output | Ch Vol | Block volume; 5.0 = unity |
| Model | Master | The IR slot: (slot − 1) ÷ 10. With the names option it reads as the slot and its name |
| Mid Freq · Q | Sag · Ripple | Where the Mid knob works (150 Hz – 3 kHz) and how wide |
| Polarity | Bias X | Inverts the phase above 5.0 |
Recovery
If the POD Go stops at the splash screen, or you want the normal firmware back: turn it off, hold Page > while you turn it on (update mode), then install the stock 2.50 file with Line 6 Updater's Choose File. The mod never touches the bootloader, so this always works.