How do peavey footswitchs work?!

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I was gonna go try out a 3120 this weekend, but i actually dont understand the footswitch.

3 channels= 3 switchs yes? No. 2 switchs, "the clean selecter must be set to bypass to activate the lead channel"

Does this mean to switch from clean to distortion i have to hit the clean button, then the lead button? If so, i'm not even trying the amp out.
 
a/b box

one of my friends just recently purchased this amp,...it's a monster! like a 5150 with a marshall tone! kinda like a lighter J.S.X., anyway he ran into the same problem, but hooked up a A/B box and the problem was solved.
 
chamelious said:
I was gonna go try out a 3120 this weekend, but i actually dont understand the footswitch.

3 channels= 3 switchs yes? No. 2 switchs, "the clean selecter must be set to bypass to activate the lead channel"

Does this mean to switch from clean to distortion i have to hit the clean button, then the lead button? If so, i'm not even trying the amp out.
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Don't quote me on this, but I suspect you could first "pre-switch" to lead, and then hit the clean footswitch to bypass and jump straight from a clean sound to lead even if you used two clicks to get there.
 
I see no reason why you can't just step on both switches at the same time.That way you're switching from your clean to gain and turning on the lead channel.I done this when i had my hughes & kettner.It had a 3 button footswitch.Clean/crunch,gain,and chorus.

The clean channel would switch from clean to crunch on button 1 but i always just kept it on the clean option.I would step on the gain and chorus buttons together so i could turn off my distortion and add chorus to my clean channel or vise versa.When i played a lead i used an old DOD preamp pedal and a Boss delay pedal through the effects loop.

The problem i had though was going from a lead into a clean part with my chorus on.It's always a foot dance of some sort no matter what amp/pedal configuration we got.It's just all part of the madness we endure as guitarists.
 
Hmm. I'll be giving this amp a miss then. If i'm dropping a grand on an amp i expect not to have to do things like "step on both switchs at once" or hook up AB boxes.
 
one switch is for clean/od. the other one is boost.

with the boost on it goes from clean to overdrive, with the boost off it goes from clean to light overdrive
 
DrewPeterson7 said:
Don't quote me on this, but I suspect you could first "pre-switch" to lead, and then hit the clean footswitch to bypass and jump straight from a clean sound to lead even if you used two clicks to get there.
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I can't find a manual for the 3120 online anywhere to confirm this, but I have a feeling that this is how it works.

My amp is 2 channels, but it also has a boost setting. I have a 2-button footswitch where button 1 switches between clean and distorted channels. Button 2 toggles the distortion channel between normal and boost. So, like Drew says, I pre-select the boost toggle, and when I switch between clean and distortion, it just uses whichever distortion setting I'm toggled to.

...that explanation didn't come out very well...I'm sleep deprived so the melon is mushy this morning and I'm not very good at Englishing.
 
Tadpui said:
I can't find a manual for the 3120 online anywhere to confirm this, but I have a feeling that this is how it works.

My amp is 2 channels, but it also has a boost setting. I have a 2-button footswitch where button 1 switches between clean and distorted channels. Button 2 toggles the distortion channel between normal and boost. So, like Drew says, I pre-select the boost toggle, and when I switch between clean and distortion, it just uses whichever distortion setting I'm toggled to.

...that explanation didn't come out very well...I'm sleep deprived so the melon is mushy this morning and I'm not very good at Englishing.
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nah that's a decnt explanation.
Basically you get one level of distortion when you press the boost if the channel is 'clean' and a different amount of boost if it's on dirty channel.
If the footswitches are the right distance apart ...... pressing two at once is no biggie.

OR you could get a Mesa Mark V and get all the versatility you need with an 8 button footswitch. I love mine.
 
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