Tip: using Scene Ignore to adapt a preset to different guitars

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Scene ignore is a powerful tool. Cooper, Chris and others have already explained it in depth.

There's one application that deserves special attention: you can use Scene Ignore to easily adapt a single preset with scenes to different guitars.

Often, players want similar output levels from their guitars. This can be programmed, but the challenge is to make the solution survive scene switching. Scene Ignore lets you accomplish this, without needing to resort to Control switches. Here's how.
  • Put a Filter block before the Amp block in your preset. Or put the Filter after the Amp block if you prefer that, or use a PEQ / GEQ, etc.
  • Dial in the block level to match your low-output guitars with your high-output guitars.
  • Turn on Scene Ignore on the Filter's channel.
  • Assign a switch on your floorboard to Filter. Or add Filter Bypass to the Performance Page.
When switching from a high-output to a low-output guitar, turn on the Filter block to compensate. And the Filter block will stay engaged when switching between scenes, regardless of its previously saved state in that scene and regardless of the Scene Revert setting.

This is probably the easiest way to make multiple guitars work with a single preset.
 
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Thank you for that great tip. I greatly appreciate all of your knowledge I have so much to learn. Thanks again.
 
Alternatively:

don't use the Filter, but configure a different channel of the Input block for the 2nd guitar, and enable Scene Ignore on that channel. Now just switch channels on the Input block to accommodate the 2nd guitar. And configure things for a 3rd and a 4th one, if desired.
 
yek said:
Scene ignore is a powerful tool. Cooper, Chris and others have already explained it in depth.

There's one application that deserves special attention: you can use Scene Ignore to easily adapt a single preset with scenes for different guitars.

Often, players want similar output levels from their guitars. This can be programmed, but the challenge is to make it survive scene switching. Well, Scene Ignore lets you accomplish this, without needing to resort to Control switches. Here's how.
  • Put a Filter block before the Amp block in your preset. Or put the Filter after the Amp block if you prefer that, use a PEQ / GEQ, etc.
  • Dial in the block level to match your low-output guitars with your high-output guitars.
  • Turn on Scene Ignore on the Filter's channel.
  • Assign a switch on your floorboard to Filter. Or add Filter Bypass to the Performance Page.
When switching from a high-output to a low-output guitar, turn on the Filter block to compensate. And the Filter block will stay engaged when switching between scenes, regardless of its previously saved state in that scene and regardless of the Scene Revert setting.

This is probably the easiest way to make multiple guitars work with a single preset.
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Thats how my bass presets work. I switch to a geq channel for each bass I have. It was the main reason I was asking for scene ignore in the first place (to handle different instruments in the same presets better) 👍
 
Thanks,

A good tip!

My homer Simpson approach had been to use a filter block, but wasting half my scenes by having one with filter on, and one with filter off.. doh!
 
And in Leon’s GoT there is a very handy filter to sort of humbuckerise a strat, which I now have on scene ignore as well. I actually just like the way it tames my rather bright strat, so it is engaged just for that guitar. Scene ignore is indeed awesome.
 
yek said:
Alternatively:

don't use the Filter, but configure a different channel of the Input block for the 2nd guitar, and enable Scene Ignore on that channel. Now just switch channels on the Input block to accommodate the 2nd guitar. And configure things for a 3rd and a 4th one, if desired.
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I like this one, never thought about that but so logic
 
tysonlt said:
And in Leon’s GoT there is a very handy filter to sort of humbuckerise a strat, which I now have on scene ignore as well. I actually just like the way it tames my rather bright strat, so it is engaged just for that guitar. Scene ignore is indeed awesome.
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Thanks for this. I checked out Leon's filter after seeing your post and finally my telecaster gets on with my humbucker designed presets - I had given up on it!
 
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