Flextone Manual Rev E; bookfile Page 27 Tuesday, September 8, 1998 10:31 AM
CREATING & STORING SOUNDS: USING THE MANUAL CHANNEL FEATURES
CREATING & STORING SOUNDS
USING THE MANUAL CHANNEL FEATURES
When you are in the Manual Channel of the Flextone, all of the controls are active and the sound of the amp always reflects the knob settings. Sounds just like any ordinary guitar amp, doesn’t it? Who says technology is threatening? You know you’re in Manual Mode, by the way, whenever the Manual button is lit (but you probably already figured out that part). Play with the knobs until you get a sound that you really like. At this point, you can either follow tradition and put
tiny little pieces of tape on the amp or mess it all up with grease pencil to mark 5 • 1 your favorite settings, or you can take a bold step into new technology and save
your sound to one of the Flextone’s memory locations. Which we’re about to tell you how to do in the next section of the manual, appropriately titled…
USING THE CHANNEL MEMORIES
So, there you are with a sound that you really like – wouldn’t it be nice to be able to call it up any time you want it? That’s simple once you have it stored into one of the Flextone channel memories. How do you do it? Just press the Save button (12). It will start to flash. Press the Channel Select ( 11 ) button (A, B, C, or D)
for the location where you want to store the sound. It will start to flash. Once you’re finished staring at the flashing lights, press the Save button a second time. The lights will stop flashing, and the sound is stored at the location you chose. Doesn’t get much simpler than that. After the sound is stored, you can bring it back any old time by simply pressing the button for the location where you stored it. (See Chapter 6 to learn how to do all this with your feet on the Floor Board).
Note: If you decide that you don’t want to store the sound after you’ve got all the lights blinking, pressing either the Tap Tempo or Manual buttons will exit the Save mode (Save mode will also be canceled if you don’t press any buttons for 5 seconds after having pressed Save).
OK, so you go over to a friend’s house who also had the good taste and intelligence to buy a Flextone. He’s created this awesome sound that’s stored in the Channel A location. You’ve got to have this sound so you can write the song that’s going to make you rich, but your friend forgot to make a copy of the Sound Programmer’s