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Basics
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Switches and operation
The three Play Electric footswitches
DOWN and UP footswitches
Form here on, we will refer…
► to the footswitch with the down-pointing tri-
angle as the DOWN footswitch and
► to the footswitch with the up-pointing triangle
as the UP footswitch.
The DOWN and UP footswitches allow you to
navigate through presets.
► Press a footswitch once to switch to the previ-
ous or next preset slot.
► Press and hold a footswitch to quickly move
through presets.
HIT / Hold for TALK footswitch
During normal operation, this footswitch acts as
a HIT button. What does this mean?
When you activate HIT by tapping the footswitch,
a new effect (or several effects) will be added
to the current sound. This feature is perfect for
spicing up a section of a song with a particular
effect, e.g. Harmony.
TALK mode
When you press and hold the HIT / Hold for TALK
footswitch, Play Electric enters TALK mode.
In TALK mode, all vocal effects are bypassed,
and the microphone input is passed directly to
the output.
TALK/Tuner mode
If you have a guitar plugged into the GUITAR IN,
you will enter TALK/Tuner mode, activating the
guitar tuner built into Play Electric. The guitar
output is muted to allow tuning, but the dry voice
is still passed to the output, allowing you to tune
your instrument and still entertain the crowd with
witty banter.
Activating Loop mode
To enter Loop mode, press and hold the DOWN
and UP footswitches simultaneously.
For more information on the Looper, see “The
Looper”.
Loop mode screen
In Loop mode, the DOWN footswitch controls
the following functions:
► PLAY
► REC (Record)
► Overdub
Holding the DOWN footswitch will undo your
most recently recorded Overdub.
In Loop mode, the UP footswitch controls the
following functions:
► STOP
► ERA (HOLD to erase)