Turning pedals OFF with footswitches

[tcio]

I'm trying to figure out how to turn OFF specific pedals (effects, etc.) when stepping on a foot switch (FS1, FS2,..) Specifically the Tube Comp and the Noise Gate. It looks like it can't be done. For example, a ways back I had a solo in a high gain song (noise gate cranked) where I'd like to turn the noise gate off in order to get a long overtone feedback while the note is hanging which if I hang too long the noise gate will cut the note off. Anyone know a way this can be done? thanks :)

 

 

[silverhead]

The easiest way to set this up is to use the Pod HD Edit program that is associated with your Pod HD. In the Controllers section of the editor you assign the footswitch you want to use to turn the FX on/off. This applies on a per preset basis.

[tcio]

Thanks for your reply. I must not have explained it well enough. My dilemma is that if I assign the noise gate (and other specific effects) to a foot switch, the foot switch light goes on and I cannot turn the noise gate on without the foot switch going on as well, like I can with say, the delay or modulation effects. For example, say I need to do some delicate solo work on a high gain song and need the noise gate off simultaneously while turning a delay and a compressor on, or even a distortion pedal effect on simultaneously while turning another distortion pedal and the noise gate off. Just wondering why this cannot be done or if there's any hope for a future firmware upgrade fix for this. I can assign the noise gate to the Toe Switch so that it turns "off" when I hit that, but not F1, F2, F3, etc.

 

Hope I explained that well enough, It is kind of complicated to explain - thanks in advance

[pianoguyy]

Yes. You can assign the same pedal to multiple functions. 

Including, but not limited to, using them in opposite order --- meaning turning one on when turning another off. 

 

You cannot, however, assign the same function to different pedals. 

[Punkyboy]

just

par example

set de noise gate ON  and set fs1

and set de delay OFF and set fs1 

set the compressor OFF and set fs1

SAVE

 

now normaly if you push the switch fs1 de noise go OFFand the delay and compressor goes ON

[tcio]

ahh ... Thanks guys! I guess after decades of having a light go on when I hit FX for soloing, I never even thought of having it on in advance so when I hit the FX for the solo, the light goes OFF instead (along with the Noise Gate). I will have to re-train my brain for that one but hey, that's certainly workable.

 

I think what really threw me off (which I just now discovered after reading these posts and trying the advice given) was the precedence that the first pedal in the chain takes in regards to whether you can have the pedal on and NOT have the foot-switch light be on. In other words, you can NOT turn the first pedal off and have the foot-switch light go off, no matter what effect it is, but anything after the first pedal in the chain (assuming it is assigned to the same foot-switch of course) you CAN turn on or off without the foot-switch light going on.  Interesting ...

 

I guess if the light being on really bothers me I could always move the Noise Gate down the chain so it's not the first effect. 

 

Thanks so much everyone for your time and help :)

[pianoguyy]

Don't think of it as on and off, think of it as A and B. 

Light on is A. Light of is B. 

A is always the first pedal in the chain. 

 

 

The other way to think of it is --- 

Build your solo sound and say "this is my sound". But, in order to not blow out everyone during the rest of the song, you change something in your sound. 

 

When the light is on, the extra stuff for is on. When you turn it off, that is when your true sound, your solo sound, appears. 

In other words, you aren't turning on your solo sound, you are turning off your solo blocking sound.