NAM A2 Lite for the POD Go
Neural Amp Modeler captures on the Line 6 POD Go and POD Go Wireless (firmware 2.50), running on the
POD Go's own DSP as an amp block, with your effects either side of it.
▶️ Watch the launch video on ToneShift · 🌐 Setup page and capture converter · 📘 Step-by-step install guide (PDF)
Unofficial and experimental. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or supported by Line 6 or Yamaha Guitar
Group. Installing modified firmware is at your own risk and may void your warranty. Read
Install and Recovery before you start.
This is a fork of hx-stomp-nam-lite by Derek Bui,
which does the same for the HX Stomp, HX Stomp XL and HX Effects: for those units, use Derek's project.
What you get
- A NAM A2 Lite block in the amp list, where Line 6 Elektrik used to be. Every other amp, cab, effect and
IR is unchanged.
- Your own captures. Convert a
.nam file on the converter page,
import it with POD Go Edit like an IR, and pick it with the block's Model knob. Up to 101 captures at once.
- Cab included. Most captures include the speaker cab, so turn the cab block off and spend that DSP on effects.
- Tone controls after the capture (Bass, Mid with frequency and width, Treble, High Cut), Input to set
how hard it's driven, and Output.
- The ToneShift Edition (optional): a boot screen with ToneShift's "NAM A2 Edition" lettering over your POD Go's own splash.
- Free the fixed blocks. Preset templates for NAM without the cab, FX loop or fixed EQ (or just without the FX loop), and a
block helper to put an amp, cab, IR or FX loop into any empty block.
How it works, in one paragraph
The POD Go can't load new kinds of files, but it stores IRs. A NAM A2 Lite capture is only 1,871 numbers, so
the converter packs them into an IR-sized .wav. You import it with POD Go Edit, and the NAM block (new DSP
code added to the POD Go's firmware) reads the numbers back from the slot the Model knob points at, and runs
the neural network on your guitar. You build the firmware yourself, from your own copy of Line 6's official
2.50 file, so no Line 6 code is ever shared. The bootloader is never touched, so Line 6's normal recovery
(hold Page > at power-on) always works.
Get started
- Follow the step-by-step install guide
(every click, also as a PDF), or read the POD Go guide
for the details: what's needed, building, installing, recovery, the knobs.
- Build the firmware: drop your stock
POD_Go_v2.50.0_0x6e984472.hxf on the
setup page. It builds in your browser (nothing is uploaded)
and says Verified when the result is byte for byte the tested build. Or on 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
- Install the built
POD_Go_v2.50.0_NAM_A2_Lite.hxf with Line 6 Updater (Choose File), after a POD Go Edit backup.
- Convert your captures on the converter page
and import the
.wav files with POD Go Edit.
- Play: amp block → NAM A2 Lite, Model → your IR slot (0.0 = slot 1, 0.3 = slot 4), cab block off.
Tested
On a POD Go Wireless, firmware 2.50: the sound matches the capture run offline on the same guitar signal; all
128 user presets load with NAM unaffected; NAM measured at 28.3% of the DSP and counted as 2,850 of the
unit's 9,000 budget units; the heaviest preset the unit admits plays clean. Wired POD Go: same firmware file,
not yet tried. Details: docs/PODGO_PORT_MAP.md.
Problems, ideas, captures that won't convert
Open an issue: the form asks for what's needed (wired or Wireless, what you did,
what happened).
Credits and licence
- hx-stomp-nam-lite by Derek Bui: the NAM kernel,
converter, build tools and RAM loader this port is built on.
- Neural Amp Modeler by Steven Atkinson: the A2 model format.
- POD Go port: Mark Daniels (TavishRox, ToneShift). Copyright (C) 2026 Mark Daniels.
GPL-3.0-or-later, as upstream. See LICENSE and NOTICE. No Line 6 firmware, code, data or
artwork is included or distributed, and no NAM captures.
