THAT’S USING YOUR FEET: FLOOR BOARD: THE FULL-FEATURED FOOT CONTROLLER FOR POD
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Effect On/Off Settings Stored With Programmed
Channels
OK, this part’s mostly for the people who fret about all the little details that make
other people think, “Wow, you’re way too concerned about all the little details!”
What happens if you turn some of these handy effects off and on and then you
save your sound into one of your POD memories? The effect on/off status gets
stored, too. Cool. Now, what happens when you decide to head over to your
friends’ house to show them how cool your POD is, and you jump on your bike,
and decide taking the Floor Board along is too much hassle, so you leave it behind,
pump the pedals with your POD balancing on your knees, strut into your friends’
place trying not to look like you’re out of breath, plug in your POD, recall your
FAVORITE sound from the handy channel select buttons, go to play that
incredibly classic-sounding Ultimate Tremolo tone that you know is going to have
your friends turning pale and quivery with envy, even if they do think you're too
concerned about all the little details, and then it hits you – you turned the tremolo
off from the Floor Board and stored the channel like that. Feel foolish, don’t you?
Let that be a lesson – never leave your Floor Board behind. Especially when there
are friends to impress. But we hate to see you suffer. So here’s how to save your
bacon: just grab the Effect Tweak knob and give it a spin. Magically, your
tremolo is back to make you a hero once again. That’s because a particular effect’s
on/off status is overridden if you tweak that effect’s setting. So Tremolo/Chorus
on/off comes on when you move the Effect Tweak knob to change your Tremolo,
Chorus, Flanger, or Rotary Speaker setting. Ditto if it’s Drive or Delay or Reverb.
But only if the Floor Board’s not connected. See? A bunch of little details. Getting
a headache, aren’t you? The important thing is, if you save channels with effects
on or off and then you don’t have your Floor Board, no worries – we’ve made sure
it doesn’t cause you problems. That’s it for the Floor Board section. Fun, wasn’t it?
By the way, if you don’t have your Floor Board handy, and want to set the EQ
(Presence), Distortion, or Drive/Boost on/off functions, you can do it by holding
Ta p and turning the Treble, Channel Volume, and Drive knobs, respectively
(these alternate functions are labeled below these knobs on your POD’s front
panel). The details are in Chapter 2’s discussion of the Ta p control.
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