So it's all about the input gain of the delay? So it's done for the trails of the delay
in this particular preset, the delay is always on
the input-gain is assigned to an XP where:
heel down = 0 / toe down = 100
with the input-gain at 0, the signal entering the delay is 0 so the delay is effectively off
when the XP is returned to 0, the delay itself is not switched off, you're simply preventing any more signal from entering the delay, so from that point on the delay tails will continue to sound until they fade naturally whilst anything you play with the heel down will be dry..
there are some nice advantages to this:
- an XP is enables you to control the amount of delay from zero to flat out so you can be subtle with it if you wish..
- the XP is a nice big target to stomp on for adding ad-hoc fx
- it's not a switch so there's no switch on / switch off [latching], or alternatively switch on and hold [non latching]. so you can give it a quick flick forwards and back to apply delay to a single note, or cock it and walk away for adding some delay for a longer period of time and then stomp on the XP's tail to kill it..
all the stuff above I do with delay2
this is because delay1 becomes active when I'm soloing
in that case, when I go to my soloing scene, delay1 is on, and it's off for all other scenes..
to preserve the tails with this delay by setting the bypass to 'mute in' because the delay is in parallel..
note: if you had a delay is in series you'd need to set the bypass to 'mute fx in'
Q - do you know what the difference between 'mute in' and mute fx in' does?
