Controlling effects with wah/volume pedal

[arturocivit]

Hi guys, I have a HD500 and I was wondering if there's a tutorial or something that explains how to go from a distorted tone to a clean one with the use of the wah/volume pedal, maybe with the pedal pressed it is the distorted one and then when I move up the pedal changes to a clean one, is this possible?

 

Thanks!!

[BillBee]

Hey there, I don't have a vid for you but in a dual amp (one clean/one distorted) chain you could pop a vol exp block behind each and have the 0-100% reversed for one. There are probably multiple ways to do for a single amp patch too - exp pedal for the OD pedal? amp drive? The sweetness of the HD is the options.

[Rewolf48]

I just link the Amp Gain to the Exp 1 Controller, and because it isn't just Gain you probably want to tweak the tone controls as well.

 

Or you could simply have a distorted amp and place a volume pedal effect in front of it

 

The old fashioned way to do this of course is to use those knobs things on the guitar  ;)

 

 

Assigning Amp controls to Controllers is covered by Glenn in this rather old video - just switch Gain for Volume and you should be good to go:

 

[pianoguyy]

Don't think of it as a wah or volume pedal. Wah pedals do wah. Volume pedals do volume. 

The HD500 has an expression pedal. It does anything. 

[arturocivit]

First things first, thanks to BillBee, Rewolf48 and pianoguyy for their help and comments, appreciated!

 

Now, 

 

 

 

Hey there, I don't have a vid for you but in a dual amp (one clean/one distorted) chain you could pop a vol exp block behind each and have the 0-100% reversed for one. There are probably multiple ways to do for a single amp patch too - exp pedal for the OD pedal? amp drive? The sweetness of the HD is the options.

 

All right, I'm going to explore that option and check that, thanks a lot!

 

 

 

The old fashioned way to do this of course is to use those knobs things on the guitar   ;)

 

Yes, you're absolutely right, I just wanted to use the clean sounds with effects and stuff like that not just cleaning the tone

 

 

Don't think of it as a wah or volume pedal. Wah pedals do wah. Volume pedals do volume. 

The HD500 has an expression pedal. It does anything. 

 

You are right, sorry about that and thanks, noted!

 

Thanks guys!

 

Arturo

[Rewolf48]

I just wanted to use the clean sounds with effects and stuff like that not just cleaning the tone

 

:)

 

I can do this - but I am using a JTV, so the Volume and Tone knobs are also Expression controllers (Exp3 and 4) so I can for example lower tube compressor threshold, raise the tube compressor level, and raise chorus mix as I lower the Volume knob on my guitar.

 

You can do all this too with the Expression pedal  - most of the primary controls for everything on the HD can be controlled by the same Expression pedal at the same time - so combine the Amp Gain setting (plus Tone Controls) with some FX setting changes and you can get a very large range of sounds just by rocking the expression pedal