Makes sense - that's a nice option. I can use another pedal if needed as well. I had a Kemper briefly and I seem to recall it doing something like: wah if on, else volume.
one of the things you cannot do in the Axe is activate / deactivate modifiers on a per scene basis..
if you could it'd be a very powerful capability..
my presets are a bit nuts and I do require this sort of functionality, so I get around it..
not so much 'think outside the box' and more like 'think outside the block'..
in several presets I use low cpu blocks like Vol, GEQ and PEQ in parallel arrangements on the grid for this purpose..
example..
scene 1 XP1 morphs my riffing tone between a hi-gain and moderately clean tone
the hi-gain tone is dry and as it cleans, a reverb starts to strengthen
scene 5 is exactly the same but also has a delay and chorus fade in as the tone cleans..
the chorus is easy.. XP1 is assigned to it's mix parameter.. in scene1 the chorus is bypassed and scene5 it's active..
the delay is trickier though because it's also used on my soloing tone where I want the delay active and unchanged no matter what XP1 is doing...
for this I use a pair of vol blocks before the delay in parallel, bypass = mute
one does absolutely nothing.. has no modifier assigned
the other has a modifier assigned so that XP1 can fade the delay in as XP1 moves to the heel down position..
scene2: soloing tone: Vol1 [that does nothing] is active and Vol2 [that has the modifier applied to the level parameter] is bypassed..
I can use XP1 to morph the tone between hi and lo gain tones and the delay remains constant
scene5: alternate riffing tone: Vol1 [that does nothing] is bypassed and Vol2 [that has the modifier applied to the level parameter] is active..
I can use XP1 to morph the tone between hi and lo gain tones and the delay fades in as the tone cleans
the outcome is that I'm effectively using the Vol blocks as alternative input-gain controls.. creating a secondary input-gain if you will..
so from a performance perspective, I'm switching XP1's control over the signal entering delay on/off on a per scene basis..
now there's another benefit.... and it's pretty cool too..
given that I'm using the Vol blocks as an external input-gain for the delay, it means that the delay's own input-gain is not being used..
so..... I assign this to Scene Controller 1
this means that on a per scene basis I can set how strong the signal can be as it enters the delay itself..
scene2 solo has a moderate setting.. because I want a nice delay whilst I'm soloing but no so much that it's intrusive..
scene5 though is set far stronger because this is used in an ambient musical context.. so a ton of delay sounds very nice..
so why is all this revenant to your prob??
I'm trying to illustrate that in a single preset I have XP1 control a variety of different things per scene..
scene1: cleans the tone and adds reverb, delay and chorus are not present
scene2: cleans the tone but the reverb and delay remain constant, chorus is not present
scene5: cleans the tone and adds reverb, delay and chorus
basically I'm trying to show you a slightly different and less obvious approach to control that, with a little creative thinking, can enable the Axe to do things over and above the control capabilities that natively reside within a single block..
