Flextone Manual Rev E; bookfile Page 35 Tuesday, September 8, 1998 10:31 AM
THAT’S USING YOUR FEET: USING THE FLOOR BOARD WITH THE FLEXTONE
that way all the time), hang some gold chains around your neck, and get ready to party! You can do subtle things with the wah pedal too, like turning it on just a tiny bit and leaving it there, just barely caressing your sound. But then, that’s not as much fun as playing the theme to “Shaft,” is it?
Volume Pedal
Not nearly as fun as the wah pedal, but arguably more useful (and it doesn’t require you to have Very Large Hair to use it convincingly). Put your foot up on that thing ( 25). It’s the one on the far right. Press the volume pedal forward with your toes for loud, and back with your heel for quiet. The volume pedal is tapered for a very musical swell. It starts out slow and then gets faster as you move your toe down, very much like an Ernie Ball volume pedal.
Many guitarists used to switch potentiometers in their volume pedal if they wanted to gradually swell an extremely overdriven tone. The Flextone is hip
enough to know about this. When you select a low gain Amp Type (to the left- 6 • 5 hand side of the
normal volume pedal taper and sets up the volume pedal to control the guitar’s volume before the preamp. Then, when you select a
2.EFFECT ON/OFF MODE
Alright. So that wah pedal was pretty fun, but now you want to get down to some business with the rest of your Flextone effects. This is where we get to light up that top LED of the pair that the Mode Select switch points to. Press the Mode Select switch ( 20) to get that LED lit.
Now, notice that the six stomp switches that we were using for the Channel Select Mode also have an alternative set of labels. This top row reads Distortion, Drive, EQ, Trem/Chorus, Delay, and Reverb (but you’re already seeing that on the handy fold out illustration and on the Floor Board itself, right? OK, just checking.... And you sent in your registration card, right? It always makes us really
happy to get those things).
The light above a stomp switch will be on if the Effect that it controls is on. The light will be off if the effect it controls is off. There goes that easy to use technology again.