Greetings, I've had my Profiler Rack for a little while, but I've only now had the time to begin to explore it.
I have some questions which I hope the community can answer. My apologies if they're in the deep-dive manual.
- I need a hard tremolo sound for songs like "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", or "Polyamorous", or "Guerilla Radio". I've tried placing a tremolo in a stomp slot, and I've tried it in an effect slot. In the stomp slot it didn't give the hard sound I needed. It sounded as if the effect wet/dry mix was set to 50-60% (but it clearly wasn't). When I dropped it into an effects slot, it worked very well.
I completely understand the tonal differences, signal flow, etc, around a decision to put a distortion pedal before the amp, as opposed to after. But why was the tremolo affected so much?
- After using a rig in a peformance slot, I've become fond of my onstage tweaks and I want to overwrite the original rig in the browse pool. How do I do this?
- I've tweaked a rig so the effects and stomps are perfect. I want to see what it sounds like with a different amp/eq/cab combination. What's the most efficient way to do this? ....and then save it?
- How do I move quickly from one effect type to another? I'm working on stomp "B", which is currently loaded with a chorus preset, and I want to load it with a pitch change preset. If I turn the browse knob, it's a loooong way through the list to the pitch presets. I fear for the lifecycle of the knob. If I use the rig buttons, I can move a little faster. But seriously, how do I just jump all the way to the pitch presets in this situation?
- I just don't understand this one at all. I've just finished setting up a wah in the "A" stomp, and I'm starting work on the "B" stomp. I want to change "B" from the currently-loaded boost preset to a distortion. When I twist the browse knob, it jumps all the way to the wah preset, instead of starting with the current boost preset and incrementing from there. Why?
- Gripe: I really really wish the monitor output was balanced. I often have my Rack 30' distant from my FRFR monitor, and it seems like that unbalanced cable could pick up a lot of noise under the wrong circumstances.
Thank you for any answers you can give. MUCH appreciated.