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litesnsirens

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Does anyone know how these work?
I have limited real estate on my pedal board and can't fit the 5 button foot-switch that came with my Triple Rectifier. I have a Nova System and added the G switch for functionality of the Nova System. I want to try to Frankenstein the G switch by purchasing some single latch foot switches taking the guts out and putting them in the G Switch box. I am surmising that with 2 switches I could access channels 2 and 3 on the amp with channel 1 being the default.

In order for that to work out my theory would have to be correct. Before I go out and buy some foot-switches I was wondering if anyone can confirm how it works.

If I set the channel selector on the back of the amp on channel 1 and then plug a foot-switch into the channel 2 foot-switch input on the back of the amp, will the foot-swtich on and off toggle me between channel 1 and 2? Or does it just switch it to channel 2 without a way to get back to channel 1? To follow up on that if I plug another foot-switch into the channel 3 foot-switch input on the back of the amp, what would happen if I engage the channel 2 foot-swtich and then with the foot-switch still activated engage the channel 3 foot-switch?

I'm sure there are some guys out there with some complicated midi rigs that are using these, I appreciated any info I can get.

Kevin
 
This is only my best guess...I haven't owned a 3 channel head in quite a while so I don't recall exactly.

I think if you set the head to channel 1 with the switch, you can't use anything to change the channels. It will only stay on channel 1. I believe it has to be set to FTSW in order for any of the switching system to work.

I'm not sure if the switching system is a momentary or latching type system either, and I believe the default channel is 2.

Sorry I can't be of more help.
 
Interesting, so let me see if I have my head wrapped around this. I put the amp on FTSW, and without the actual 7 pin footswitch plugged in, I will be on channel 2. Then the idea would be to put a single latch FTSW plugged into the channel 1 input to access that channel and another into channel 3 to access that channel. Does that sound right?

Does anyone know what would happen in this scenario of both of those footswitches were activated at the same time? Would activating channel 3 FTSW defeat the channel 1 FTSW until it is deactivated? Or would both of them on do something weird like bring you back to channel 2?

I think this would be great if there was a section explaining all these details in the manual.
 
just in case anyone is interested or curious about this, i spoke to the the tech guy at mesa today. You are correct in that channel 2 is the default if you are on FTSW on the back of the amp and nothing plugged in. So if you plug in a single latch switch into channel 1 FTSW input on the back of the amp, you can toggle between the two channels with the FTSW. Now it gets tricky from there .. if you want to add another FTSW for channel 3, you have can't have the FTSW for channel 1 on at the same time as the channel 3 FTSW, it will engage both channels at the same time and that is bad. Those inputs are optimally designed for a midi rig where hitting a certain button will turn off channel 1 as it turns on channel 3.
 
litesnsirens said:
just in case anyone is interested or curious about this, i spoke to the the tech guy at mesa today. You are correct in that channel 2 is the default if you are on FTSW on the back of the amp and nothing plugged in. So if you plug in a single latch switch into channel 1 FTSW input on the back of the amp, you can toggle between the two channels with the FTSW. Now it gets tricky from there .. if you want to add another FTSW for channel 3, you have can't have the FTSW for channel 1 on at the same time as the channel 3 FTSW, it will engage both channels at the same time and that is bad. Those inputs are optimally designed for a midi rig where hitting a certain button will turn off channel 1 as it turns on channel 3.

I was thinking that would be how it worked, but I wasn't sure on the part about having both channels on at the same time. Good to know.

I second Fluff...probably time for a bigger pedalboard.
 
Not to worry guys,,, after learning that I had no intentions of using two FTSW's ... I will probably just settle for channels one and two for the moment, with the drive in the Nova system, I have a lot of tonal options ... Of course it seems a waste to leave channel 3 out of the mix... but maybe I can figure something better out in the future...
 

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