Hi
Everyone may already know this, but Ive only just figured it out.
Ive got an electic guitar and a Roland Cube Street amp.
I wanted to, in the future when I can actually play, be able to play a song where say you start of with a clean sound and then go overdriven, think Unforgiven or One by Metallica.
But how do you do that without stopping the song, and using my hand to turn the knob on the amp from clean to r-fier(chugga chugga overdriven sound)?
I know I could buy specific fx pedals, but why should I when Ive got great amp models on the amp. Then I thought, could I use some footswitch to change channels on the amp, there are two on this amp, and two sockets for footswitches, so I could have one channel clean, and other overdriven, and I think I can use an expensive aby footswitch.
but I thought, how do buskers, and performers do it?
The guitar volume control, is the answer, I think.
I experimented, and set up my amp with the sound I wanted for the overdriven parts of the song. Loud, high gain, bit of reverb etc. Tested it in the guitar, great.
Then I turned the guitar volume control to 2, and guess what? Its was a lovely clean sound. Then I turned it up to 10, and its the great chugga overdriven sound. Every step inbetween, adds more overdrive.
So I could play(when Im good enough) Unforgiven, with its clean intro, turn the volume on the guitar up and blast out the overdriven rhythm and lead parts while never having to touch the amp.
Hope this helps.