Line 6 Flextone Cab 212S user manual TWO Modes, Banks, Channel Select Mode

Flextone Manual Rev E; bookfile Page 32 Tuesday, September 8, 1998 10:31 AM

THAT’S USING YOUR FEET: USING THE FLOOR BOARD WITH THE FLEXTONE

TWO MODES

The first thing to know is that the Floor Board has two Modes of operation: Channel Select Mode, and Effect On/Off Mode. The Mode Select switch ( 20) chooses which mode you’re in.

Mine Looks Funny: Your Floor Board may look a little different than the one illustrated on the Flextone manual’s fold out back cover. Older Floor Boards have the label Select Sound instead of Channel Select. We decided to change the name to Channel Select for this mode, since that’s, in fact, what you do with it. We changed Sound A, B, C, D to Channel A, B, C, and D, too. However the Floor Board’s decorated, it works the same.

1.CHANNEL SELECT MODE

	Let’s start with Channel Select Mode. Note the line that traces from the Mode
6 • 2	Select switch (20) and points to the two LED arrows below. The top LED lights if

you’ve selected Effect On/Off, and the bottom LED lights if you’ve chosen Channel Select mode. Give that Mode Select switch a kick if necessary, and get that lower LED (Channel Select) lit.

Banks

HD OWNERS: Chapter 7 has additional important info on the HD user banks.

The two left-most stomp switches on the bottom row ( 21 on your handy back cover foldout Floor Board diagram) are labeled Bank Down and Bank Up. A Bank is a section of the Flextone’s memory that holds four channel settings. The Flextone combos have seven memory banks total: three User Banks, and four Preset Banks. The User banks are where you store setups you make. These memory locations come pre-loaded with some tasty little tones created at Line 6, but you can change them into whatever you want, and store those changes back into one of the User memory bank locations. In other words, User means, “use these locations for whatever you want.” The Preset Banks are a more hard-wired kinda thing. You can’t overwrite these setups – hopefully, they’re so good that you’ll always want to have them handy as your standard tone reference.

When you’re using a Flextone without a Floor Board, by the way, you’re always in User Bank 1. With the Floor Board, you’ve got a choice of User 1, 2, & 3, and Preset 1, 2, 3, & 4. You know which Bank you’ve got because the Floor Board’s