Working It: CHANNELS & BANKS & BUTTONS
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CHANNELS & BANKS & BUTTONS
Oh, my! We already gave you the quick rundown on recalling Channels in the
preceding pages of this User Guide. Here, we're going to walk through it in a little
more detail, just to make sure everything’s clear like crystal. Here goes:
A “Channel” is a stored setup of all the AX2’s settings – everything about your
basic amp sound, and all your effects processing, too.
A “Bank” is a group of four channels – A, B, C, and D. The idea is for the four
channels to potentially be related – like maybe your clean sound, your rhythm sound,
your lead sound, and your ‘wow, how’d the guitarist make that sound!?’ sound. Or, if
you're in a band, say, then maybe you have the four sounds for a particular song stored
in Bank 1, and then the four sounds for another song stored in Bank 2. So for every
song, you know all you’ve got to do is pick a Bank, and then work your way from left to
right across the Channels. Or, you might have four variants on a particular amplifier
stored side by side in one bank for easy access. You can do it any way you want – the
individual Channel memories aren’t tied to each other in any particular way, they just
happen to be grouped in these banks of four ‘cause we thought it was handy like that.
To get from one Bank to another, use the BANK UP/DOWN keys. And once you’re in
a Bank, use the CHANNEL A, B, C, D keys to choose one of the Channels in that
newly selected Bank.
There are two sections of banks: Preset and User. You may have already picked
up along the way that there are two different sets of banks – the “Presets” and the
“Users.” Pressing the cleverly labeled PRESET/USER button swings you instantly
from one of these sets to the other. You can think of the Preset Banks and Channels
sort of like library books – you take ’em as you find ’em, and can always rely on them to
be there as a standard reference collection of many different things you might want to
use some time. The User Banks and Channels are yours to mess around with – like
your notebook where you can write down all your ideas you want to save for later.
There are 32 Preset Banks, and 32 User Banks. Each Bank is a group of four
Channels, A, B, C, and D, as we just discussed above. So (math whizzes are already
ahead of me) there are 128 total Preset Channels, and 128 total User Channels – 256
Channels all told. Which is probably like about 254 or 255 more than your old amp.
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