Stompboxes & Effects • About the Stompboxes
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Deep Dive Editing
All of PODXT’s Stomp boxes and Effects share a similar way of editing and the real
details are covered in Chapter 4, Creating & Storing Sounds. We’ll go over the
two basic ways to do it here. To edit any effect’s parameters you can:
A. Press the E
DIT button, then use the SELECT knob to scroll through the pages and
find the parameters you’re looking for, or
B. Double-press an effect on/off button (press it twice quickly) to go straight to the
first page for that effect.
Stomp Effects: Distortions and Overdrives
Back before fuzzes, distortions, and overdrives existed, guitar players used to do stuff like
slice their speakers with a razor blade to get that raunchy, distorted, lovely sound
(check out Link Wray’s ‘Rumble’ for an example). While it sounded great, it did make
it impractical to turn around and play a nice smooth ballad on the same amp.
Enter the ‘fuzz’ box. Legend has it that the first such devices were designed to duplicate
the sound of a faulty mixer input strip. Whether this story is true or not, soon
everybody was getting some ‘Satisfaction’ through the modern miracle of floor-based
distortion.
Stomp Effects: Compressors
A compressor takes quiet sounds and loud sounds coming into it, and makes them have
a more similar volume, so the loudest sounds aren’t so loud versus the quiet sounds, and
the quiet sounds are closer to the level of the loudest sounds. The result is that a
compressor can be set to keep boosting the level of your guitar signal as a note dies
away, giving your guitar a longer note decay. In other words, plop a stomp box
compressor down in front of an amp and you’ve got an instant sustain enhancer! As a
side benefit, the compressor evens out your attacks and enables you to make up some
gain (so you can hit the front end of your amp a bit hotter, but without extra before-
the-amp distortion that a distortion box would create when boosting input level to your
amp). We’ve provided you with a number of stompbox compression options in POD
XT,
so you can squash your signal ’til the cows come home.
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