Only one FS on at the time

[nebnep]

Hi everyone,

Can anyone help me on this:

At the moment I have assigned a clean sound FS7. Then I have assigned an overdrive to FS5 and a distortion to FS6.

What I want, is to be able to switch between these 3 configurations with a single press, so that when I press FS5, FS6 and FS7 will turn off. And when I press FS6, FS5 and FS 7 will Turn off etc.

The process while playing is that, I start up playing with a clean sound in the A part of the song having only FS7 switched on. In the B part I turn on FS5 and get overdrive. No problems so far. But then in the C part I want to go from Overdrive to distortion pressing on FS6. So now I have both overdrive FS5 and distortion FS5 turned on, which will become too noisy. Then I want to go back to the clean a part. This means that, I have to switch both FS6 and FS5 of at the same time.

So it would be very nice to be able to make a setup where only one FS could be activated at a time, so that I can change between multiple effects with only one press for each change.

 

Does anyone have a usable solution for this problem?

 

Thanks a lot!

 

P.S. Some days ago I was thinking, I could just make 3 different patches - one for each sound and the switch to ABCD mode in utilities. So I did. But Switching between patches when playing creates short mute, while uploading. So this is not an option.

[brokenbones]

You're at the limits of what the HD can do. That "short mute' is something you're just going to have to work around. Think of all the players that use a clean amp A/B'ed with a distorted amp (my former self included). Switching between those two amps is never 100% instantaneous. There is a noticeable delay, maybe a 0.5 second? You'll learn to switch over a little quicker and if you're playing with a band you should be able to hide it. 

 

You could try changing the FS mode settings to have the lower row, FX5-8, operate as your main amp channels and switch FX1-4 to ABCD mode to operate as your effects chain.  Then, I would make two patches on the bottom row; FX7 for your clean channel, and FX8 for full on distortion. Then on FX7, on the ABCD mode, make one of FX1-4 your crunch tone. 

 

Another option is to ditch your clean channel all together for this song. Start out playing on the crunch channel and roll back your guitar volume to clean up your tone. Then turn up your volume when you get to Part B of the song and finally, switch on the distortion effect from ABCD mode. I forgot to mention that effects channels ( FX1-4) on ABCD mode switch on/off instantaneously so you won't get that delay between tones.

 

Something else you could try is using the EXP pedal set to control the gain. Half way down could be your crunch and all the way down could be your full on distortion? 

 

Personally I think a lot of new users think that delay in switching patches seems like an eternity. You'll get used to it and you'll get craftier at knowing when you need to switch over. It just takes some time and practice. I've been gigging out with the HD500x for a few years now and hiding that 0.5 second is just second nature to me.