ChainOfThought
Experienced
I've typed and deleted a post 6 times trying to keep it concise...let me run this setup by you guys, I won't be able to test it out for a few days.
Clean achieved via 1 drive pedal, bypassed amp block
High-Gain by amp block
Crunch by lowering drive in the amp block.
CtrlSw1 on bypasses the amp block, activates the drive block for clean, on does the opposite
CtrlSw2 off lowers in the input drive/whatever for the crunch setting, on raises it back up for high gain.
Clean to Crunch = Sw2 off then Sw1 off
Clean to High = Sw2 on then Sw1 off
Crunch to High = Sw2 on
Crunch to Clean = Sw1 on
High to Clean = Sw1 on
High to Crunch = Sw2 off
In this way, assuming I can make all the tones work without any x/y switching, I can use the two control switches to hit three different 'channels' without any audio gaps or overlapping tones. By that I mean that I won't need to have the clean drive block active before turning the amp block off, or switch to high gain before lowering back to crunch etc etc. There will be the opportunity for a tiny bit of tap dancing when switching out of the clean channel, but thats easy enough to preset when I know the part is coming up in a song or whatever.
Does this make sense? I gave up on the control switches entirely this afternoon when I realized that they forced the affected blocks into an on/off state, but I think I just talked myself through it and this'll work. If it does, then I just achieved my 3 channel amp setup only using 2 buttons. And I can still x/y the high-gain tone via a separate switch, and still have Drive2 available for whatever I want to use it as.
I think a large part of this working and sounding good is because I'm running through a poweramp and cab, but I'm OK with that. I don't care about having multiple tones in a preset when its time to record, which is the only time I'll be using IR's, as I'll be recording those parts one by one, so there'll be no switching involved.
This has me pretty excited haha.
Edit: The baby is asleep and I don't have a headphone setup at the moment, so I can't REALLY test, but I did just pull the ax8 out and setup the preset to see if it looks like it works from the front panel. It seems like it does...predictable switching, no surprises. The right blocks bypass at the right time and the right settings adjust at the right time. I still haven't had a chance to actually set up a crunch tone using the drive adjustments, but I'm pretty sure I can make it happen. I'm still flopping between a VH4 and Engl Savage for my main tone, so hopefully one or both of them will be useable in thet regard.
Clean achieved via 1 drive pedal, bypassed amp block
High-Gain by amp block
Crunch by lowering drive in the amp block.
CtrlSw1 on bypasses the amp block, activates the drive block for clean, on does the opposite
CtrlSw2 off lowers in the input drive/whatever for the crunch setting, on raises it back up for high gain.
Clean to Crunch = Sw2 off then Sw1 off
Clean to High = Sw2 on then Sw1 off
Crunch to High = Sw2 on
Crunch to Clean = Sw1 on
High to Clean = Sw1 on
High to Crunch = Sw2 off
In this way, assuming I can make all the tones work without any x/y switching, I can use the two control switches to hit three different 'channels' without any audio gaps or overlapping tones. By that I mean that I won't need to have the clean drive block active before turning the amp block off, or switch to high gain before lowering back to crunch etc etc. There will be the opportunity for a tiny bit of tap dancing when switching out of the clean channel, but thats easy enough to preset when I know the part is coming up in a song or whatever.
Does this make sense? I gave up on the control switches entirely this afternoon when I realized that they forced the affected blocks into an on/off state, but I think I just talked myself through it and this'll work. If it does, then I just achieved my 3 channel amp setup only using 2 buttons. And I can still x/y the high-gain tone via a separate switch, and still have Drive2 available for whatever I want to use it as.
I think a large part of this working and sounding good is because I'm running through a poweramp and cab, but I'm OK with that. I don't care about having multiple tones in a preset when its time to record, which is the only time I'll be using IR's, as I'll be recording those parts one by one, so there'll be no switching involved.
This has me pretty excited haha.
Edit: The baby is asleep and I don't have a headphone setup at the moment, so I can't REALLY test, but I did just pull the ax8 out and setup the preset to see if it looks like it works from the front panel. It seems like it does...predictable switching, no surprises. The right blocks bypass at the right time and the right settings adjust at the right time. I still haven't had a chance to actually set up a crunch tone using the drive adjustments, but I'm pretty sure I can make it happen. I'm still flopping between a VH4 and Engl Savage for my main tone, so hopefully one or both of them will be useable in thet regard.
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