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THAT’S USING YOUR FEET: USING THE FLOOR BOARD WITH THE FLEXTONE
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that way all the time), hang some gold chains around your neck, and get ready to
party! You can do subtle things with the wah pedal too, like turning it on just a
tiny bit and leaving it there, just barely caressing your sound. But then, that’s not
as much fun as playing the theme to “Shaft,” is it?
Volume Pedal
Not nearly as fun as the wah pedal, but arguably more useful (and it doesn’t
require you to have Very Large Hair to use it convincingly). Put your foot up on
that thing ( ). It’s the one on the far right. Press the volume pedal forward with
your toes for loud, and back with your heel for quiet. The volume pedal is tapered
for a very musical swell. It starts out slow and then gets faster as you move your toe
down, very much like an Ernie Ball volume pedal.
Many guitarists used to switch potentiometers in their volume pedal if they
wanted to gradually swell an extremely overdriven tone. The Flextone is hip
enough to know about this. When you select a low gain Amp Type (to the left-
hand side of the 16-position switch) the Flextone automatically chooses the
normal volume pedal taper and sets up the volume pedal to control the guitar’s
volume before the preamp. Then, when you select a high-gain amp type, the
Flextone changes the taper and re-patches the volume pedal location to be post-
preamp, as this is the more valuable position for a volume pedal with this kind of
amplifier tone.
2. EFFECT ON/OFF MODE
Alright. So that wah pedal was pretty fun, but now you want to get down to some
business with the rest of your Flextone effects. This is where we get to light up that
top LED of the pair that the Mode Select switch points to. Press the Mode
Select switch ( ) to get that LED lit.
Now, notice that the six stomp switches that we were using for the Channel Select
Mode also have an alternative set of labels. This top row reads Distortion, Drive,
EQ, Trem/Chorus, Delay, and Reverb (but you’re already seeing that on the
handy fold out illustration and on the Floor Board itself, right? OK, just
checking.... And you sent in your registration card, right? It always makes us really
happy to get those things).
The light above a stomp switch will be on if the Effect that it controls is on. The
light will be off if the effect it controls is off. There goes that easy to use
technology again.
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