LordOfMisrule Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Is anyone aware if you can assign one of the footswitches to enable and bypass the input noisegate? Can you assign a footswitch to change any of the parameters input and output settings? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
datacommando Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 On 1/9/2026 at 9:33 AM, LordOfMisrule said: Is anyone aware if you can assign one of the footswitches to enable and bypass the input noisegate? Can you assign a footswitch to change any of the parameters input and output settings? Hi, That’s a bit of an odd question, because generally you would require a noise gate to be on, and thus block any unwanted noise passing through your signal chain. Having a noise gate across the input means that you’re not using an otherwise valuable footswitch to do the job. Usually a noise gate is best positioned right at the front to remove any unwanted hiss, or noise from pickups. If you do wish to use a footswitch then a Noise Gate block, or Hard Gate (good for stutter fx) are also available in the Dynamics section of the effects blocks. I’m not in the studio today, and I’m unable to check this, but theoretically, using Command Centre, you can assign just about anything to anything. Although, what the advantages of that are I’m not sure, because the only adjustable things on a Gate are Threshold and Decay (Release). I really don’t understand what you want to achieve by turning a gate on, or off. Hope this helps/makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordOfMisrule Posted January 9 Author Share Posted January 9 On 1/9/2026 at 1:27 PM, datacommando said: I really don’t understand what you want to achieve by turning a gate on, or off. Hi datacommando, thank you for your reply. I play in a heavy rock/punk band and sometimes I want some feedback on stage for certain songs or to transition from one song into the other. I will be using an onstage cab to get some stage volume to create the feedback but I would like to have control over when to create feedback and when not. I could very well use the noise gate block, but that's wasting already 1 of the 8 blocks I have available. And as the input could function as a noise gate I was wondering if I can control that with a footswitch to. That way I can avoid having to spend a block on it and can disable it when I want to get noisy on stage. Hope that makes sense. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
datacommando Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 On 1/9/2026 at 12:42 PM, LordOfMisrule said: And as the input could function as a noise gate I was wondering if I can control that with a footswitch to. That way I can avoid having to spend a block on it and can disable it when I want to get noisy on stage. Hope that makes sense. Hi, again, Update to previous post regarding using a footswitch to turn the Input Gate ON/OFF. SOLVED! I just fired up HX Edit and selected the Path Input (Set to Guitar) and in the EDIT Section you can set a foot switch to turn the Gate On or Off. The down side of this is that you lose the functionality of one of your limited amount of available footswitches. Also, if you go really crazy, you can map an expression pedal to control the Threshold and/or Decay of the Gate, although I can't see the point of that, other than it is possible. Have fun! Hope this helps/makes sense. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordOfMisrule Posted January 9 Author Share Posted January 9 On 1/9/2026 at 4:05 PM, datacommando said: I just fired up HX Edit and selected the Path Input (Set to Guitar) and in the EDIT Section you can set a foot switch to turn the Gate On or Off. The down side of this is that you lose the functionality of one of your limited amount of available footswitches. Great news! That's exactly what I need! I already have 2 external footswitches I can hook up to expand to FS7 and FS8, so I'll have plenty footswitches to play with. Thank mate! Really appreciate the insight. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rd2rk Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 You can also do this using Snapshots if you don't want to waste a FS. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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