User manual LINE 6 FBV-POD X3 CONTROL GUIDE

[. . . ] ® FBV - POD X3 Control Guide tm ® Using the FBVtm, FBV Shortboardtm or FBV Expresstm with POD® X3 POD X3 Firmware Version 1. 01 P32A HENDRIX UNIVIBE Updated: Nov. 12, 2007 FBV - POD X3 Control Guide Table of ConTenTs Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1·3 Updating & Registering with Line 6 Monkey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1·3 Connecting the FBV to the POD X3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1·5 Expression Pedal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Just like accessing the effects blocks and parameters directly on the POD X3 itself, using the following effects footswitch buttons will control only those effects for the currently selected Tone. To toggle between Tone 1 and Tone 2, use the TONE 2 button on the POD X3. See the Controlling Dual Tone Presets section. FBV FX LOOP: Toggles COMP block On/Off. TIP - POD X3 includes a "Comp Switch" system setting that allows you to set either the COMP effect block or the AMP block to be controlled by this footswitch. This setting is configurable for each User preset, and for each Tone within the preset. Please read about the COMP SW in the POD X3 System Configuration section. STOMP BOX 1: Toggles the STOMP block on/off. STOMP BOX 2 & 3: Note that these two buttons do the same as the STOMP BOX 1 button, and that only the indicator light for the STOMP BOX 1 button will change to indicate the STOMP state. AMP 1: Toggles the AMP+CAB block on/off. Note - As mentioned above, the POD X3 "Comp Switch" can be set to allow the FBV's FX LOOP button toggle the AMP+CAB block on/off. But since the large FBV already has the dedicated AMP1 button for this purpose, you'll probably want to just keep the POD X3 Comp Switch set to "COMP" to dedicate the FX LOOP button to the Compressor block. AMP 2: Has no function with POD X3. TREMOLO: Has no function with POD X3. 2·10 FBV - POD X3 Control Guide: taking Control MODULATION: Toggles the MOD block on/off. TAP TEMPO: Allows you to tap in a tempo for supported Delay and Mod effects to follow. The LED above the button flashes to indicate the current tempo. TUNER: Hold the TAP button down for 2 seconds to call up the Tuner. The FBV display then shows you a handy Tuner screen. TIP - You can also set the "AUDIO" behavior for the Tuner mode on the POD X3 directly on the POD X3 Tuner page to either MUTE your audible signal or not. (Sure, everyone likes to hear a guitar in tune, but they don't necessarily want to hear you tune it!) Pedal 1 and Pedal 2: The Pedals can actually be assigned to control either Tone 1, Tone 2, or both Tones, and assigned to different functions (Wah, Volume, Tweak). Please refer to POD X3 System Configuration section for details on how to set up these pedal behaviors. Pedal VOL & WAH Indicators: The lights at the top of each pedal indicate the current mode for the Pedal. When both lights are lit this indicates the pedal is controlling the assigned TWEAK parameter. FBV Shortboard FX LOOP: Toggles COMP block On/Off. TIP - POD X3 includes a "Comp Switch" System setting that allows you to set either the COMP effect block or the AMP block to be controlled by this footswitch. This setting is configurable for each User preset, and for each Tone within the preset. Please read about the COMP SW in the POD X3 System Configuration section. STOMP: Toggles the STOMP block on/off. MODULATION: Toggles the MOD block on/off. TAP: Allows you to tap in a tempo for supported Delay and Mod effects to follow. The LED above the button flashes to indicate the current tempo. [. . . ] The resulting behavior for this Dual Tone scenario therefore is that one Tone gets it's Wah effect controlled while the other Tone gets it's Volume controlled simultaneously. The moral of the story here is that you can choose exactly how to configure each Tone and Save your User preset to achieve the behavior you want! If you want to get really weird then you can get some interesting results with Dual Tone presets by assigning a pedal to an effect on only one Tone, or to control different effects on each Tone in a Dual Tone preset. If you have a 2nd pedal then it's also possible to set it to control Tweak or Volume for even greater control. The best practice is to create several different User presets and save the pedal configurations exactly how you want for each - this allows you to call up not only different sounds and effect combinations, but different methods of control over effects at the same time! Setting the Volume Pedal's min & max Volume The POD X3's Volume effect can of course be controlled by the pedal(s) of your FBV Series Controller, and your POD X3 provides a few options for the Volume effect. [. . . ]