Foot Control: CHANNEL SELECT MODE
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light show. The idea is that the lights to the left come on if you’re flat. The lights to
the right light if you’re sharp. And the two lights in the center will light at the same
time when you’ve got it just right. Give any one of the Floor Board’s switches a stomp
and the tuner disappears just as swiftly as it came and you’re right back to Channel
Select Mode. What if you want to tune to a different reference than A=440Hz? When
you’re in the tuner mode, turn the Mid knob on the AX2 while watching the display
on the Floor Board. Hey, it changes! You can set the reference frequency anywhere
from 335-445Hz. This setting is stored so you don’t have to reset it every time you turn
on the AX2 if you decide you want to be different (or if that piano in your rehearsal
room has decided to be different).
WAH PEDAL
So how about that Wah pedal? It’s the one on the left ( ). Get yourself planted
with your foot on there nice and comfortable. Now, press down with your toes, let go,
and do it again. You should see a little light turning on and off to the left of the Wah
pedal. When the light’s on, the wah’s on. When the light’s off, the wah’s off. Now
then, turn the wah light on, switch to the Black Panel Amp Model, set your Drive to
about 5, and do a little fast rhythm playing while you rock back and forth to the beat
on that wah pedal. Hang a disco ball, unbutton your shirt to your navel (assuming you
don’t have it that way all the time), hang some gold chains around your neck, and get
ready to party! You can do subtle things with the wah pedal too, like turning it on just
a tiny bit and leaving it there, just barely caressing your sound. But then, that’s not as
much fun as playing the theme to “Shaft,” is it?
VOLUME PEDAL
Not nearly as fun as the wah pedal, but arguably more useful (and it doesn’t require
you to have Very Large Hair to use it convincingly). Put your foot up on that thing
( ). It’s the one on the far right. Press the volume pedal forward with your toes for
loud, and back with your heel for quiet. The volume pedal is tapered for a very musical
swell. It starts out slow and then gets faster as you move your toe down, very much like
an Ernie Ball volume pedal.
Don’t forget that the Volume pedal can be assigned to three different positions in the
AX2 Signal Flow: Pre, Dis, and Post. If you look at the signal flow chart (16), you'll
notice that Pre places the volume pedal before the distortion box models. In this
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