Owner's Manual

THAT’S USING YOUR FEET: FLOOR BOARD: THE FULL-FEATURED FOOT

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2. EFFECT ON/OFF MODE

Alright. So that wah pedal was pretty fun, but now you want to get down to some

business with the rest of your POD effects. This is where we get to light up that top

arrow of the pair that the Mode Select switch points to. Press the Mode Select

switch to get that arrow lit.

Now, notice that the six stomp switches that we were using for the Channel Select

Mode also have an alternative set of labels. This top row reads Distortion, Drive,

EQ, Trem/Chorus, Delay, and Reverb (but you’re already seeing that on the

handy fold out illustration and on the Floor Board itself, right? OK, just

checking.... And you sent in your registration card, right? It always makes us really

happy to get those things).

The light above a stomp switch will be on if the effect that it controls is on. The

light will be off if the effect it controls is off. There goes that easy to use

technology again.

Distortion

The Distortion on/off switch works kinda like a distortion pedal with the

distortion control set low and the output level cranked. With a distortion pedal,

you kick the Distortion on, and your sound is more distorted. You kick it off, and

your sound is less distorted. Same thing here. What this does in actuality is

increase the drive of your POD, so you’re hitting the Amp Model a little harder on

the input. Distortion always can add more Drive to your sound, even if the Drive

knob is already crammed up to max. Thus, ﬁnally, you can get everything

turned up louder than everything else.

Drive/Boost

Depending on when you buy your Floor Board, you may ﬁnd that the Drive/

Boost switch is just labeled Drive instead. What gives? While the switch does

control Drive on our older AxSys 212 Digital Guitar Ampliﬁcation Systems, for

our later products (like POD) it’s actually set up to give you a volume boost. Our

users asked us to put in this capability – an easy to use volume boost/cut control –

so here it is. The idea is that you can use this for a “lead boost” when you want to

get a bit of extra volume and jump out over the band, or a “rhythm cut” when you