In the manual on page 15 it clearly states how to change the inside dip switches to get different bypass modes.
How come when i'm in looper (I'm ALWAYS on looper, I got the pedal for this single feature - could have waited for he ditto, but anyhow) how come the FX LEVEL knob ALWAYS controls my dry & looped level? even when bypassed? how can my bypassed signal be truebyapss when disengaged if that knob is controlling the volume?
& why doesn't the FX LEVEL knob just control the wet (looped level) & just leave my dry signal alone
I couldn't speak specifically on the Flashback, but there are acknowledged design flaws in some of those TC pedals.
I've got the Shaker vibrato and I assumed that in latch mode, the circuitry wouldn't be engaged unless I depressed the latch. Not so. The Tone control effects the tone regardless of whether the latch is depressed or not. I e-mailed TC about it and they admitted as much. Just something they overlooked?
Maybe it's a similar situation with the Flashback?
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dubkitty wrote:stupid question: are you sure you've got the switch positions correct?
yeah.
so here's the jizz from TC.
"This has to do with the analog-dry-through feature and true bypass:
Basically Flashback is never true bypass when you select looper. The reason why, is that we want it to be "armed" and ready to record as soon as you select the looper. If it was true bypass you'd have to first turn the looper on to active the effect, then turn the recorder on, to actually start recording. Obviously we couldn't be using one press on the footswitch to do both these actions, so we'd have to come up with some way of controlling "looper on" AND "record/stop" using to different footswitch "commands" (for example "press footswitch once to activate looper" and "press and hold to record"), which I hope you'll agree would be very annoying and not very intuitive.
So the bottom line is that no matter how you set the dip switch on the back of the pedal, Flashback will always be in buffer mode when you select the looper. If you have Flashback in TB mode, it'll of course automatically jump back to TB when you select one of the delay types... you should actually be able to hear the relay clicking when you switch between the looper and delays.
The reason why the looper controls the volume of the entire signal in loop mode is because of the analog-dry-through feature. The FX Level pot is an analog pot that mixes the wet signal with the dry AFTER the wet signal has been converted back to analog. In other words, we can't do any clever digital trickery to the wet signal (i.e.turn it all the way up when in loop mode), because the pot is analog. Because the looper is 100% wet and no dry as explained above, this means that the FX level pot controls the overall output of the entire signal."
HMMMMM would have liked this in the manual or on the web page...
the Ditto details read like they might have this problem fixed?
Forrrest wrote:In the manual on page 15 it clearly states how to change the inside dip switches to get different bypass modes.
How come when i'm in looper (I'm ALWAYS on looper, I got the pedal for this single feature - could have waited for he ditto, but anyhow) how come the FX LEVEL knob ALWAYS controls my dry & looped level? even when bypassed? how can my bypassed signal be truebyapss when disengaged if that knob is controlling the volume?
& why doesn't the FX LEVEL knob just control the wet (looped level) & just leave my dry signal alone
anyone?
I may not know anything, and I don't, but is it possible for any digital looper to be true bypass? I only ask because the DL-4 can do true bypass in every mode EXCEPT the looper. You can even hear the little "click" when you turn it to looper and back to something else.
I know that those TCs have dipswitches... like for kill-dry and "trails" and all that shit, but I always figured it wasn't possible to do a digital looper in true bypass. I don't know why I figured that.
Someone set me straight. Like I wonder if the Vox DelayLab is also false-bypass (har har) when you have the looper engaged, but not the other settings.
