Adjusting Your Delay Mix Quickly, At A Gig

On my HX Stomp since the footswitch assigned to my delay has been an external one lately, I don't get to reap the benefits of a capacitive footswitch.

I'd have to hit the View button to get into the Edit view, turn a knob to highlight my delay block (hope to hell my encoder doesn't skip over a block like it does sometimes), page over to the Mix parameter (I'm going by memory here, I don't think the Mix parameter is on page 1 of the parameters) and adjust the encoder..


On the Helix floor I'd use the assigned footswitch. Touch it, the delay block shows up with its parameters and the mix would usually be on the first page. Or use Pedal Edit and do it hands-free.
 
This is what I do. I love it.

Yup. A bonus is people listening thinking you are a fucking wizard or something.

Magic Dnd GIF by Nick Sazani
 
Having an Exp Pedal for Delay Feedback and/or Time is balls to the wall fun, too.

Self-oscillating spaceship noises and blowing minds. :chef
Back when I was a Roland Ready/ GR-55 guy, I would map the GK tone knob on my Strat to delay mix and delay feedback (tuned with different mins and maxes) so I could be more or less “dramatic” as needed throughout a song.
 
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On the helix I think you just go to the delay you want to modify and the mix is usually one of the main knobs or it's one click over.

I have an outdoor show today and we're like the 2nd band so I'm a little nervous about seeing the screen in the light. Looking for a piece of cardboard or something to hold up lol. Outdoor shows are fun though... just means more amps and cabs!
 
On the helix I think you just go to the delay you want to modify and the mix is usually one of the main knobs or it's one click over.

I have an outdoor show today and we're like the 2nd band so I'm a little nervous about seeing the screen in the light. Looking for a piece of cardboard or something to hold up lol. Outdoor shows are fun though... just means more amps and cabs!
Good weather for it today!👍
 
I don’t, but if I did, it takes a couple of actions to get there unless you save the preset with the delay highlighted. If I needed it as effect I’d assign it to an exp. Are you guys really deciding in the middle of a song to adjust the delay mix?
 
I don’t, but if I did, it takes a couple of actions to get there unless you save the preset with the delay highlighted. If I needed it as effect I’d assign it to an exp. Are you guys really deciding in the middle of a song to adjust the delay mix?

Hahaha no.

This is the original quote that brought all this up-

In-depth tweaking gets done at home, band practices are for final tweaks and if something isn’t right at a show I just make a mental note to fix later. I’m not going to let a delay mix being at 14% instead of 16% get in the way of a gig. Performance knobs handle the BMT/Gain and anything more than that should have been figured out during a rehearsal

Which smooth brains turned into-

You can't adjust the delay mix on the fly? That's nuts
 
I’m in the camp that thinks it’s a little fussy to mess with live, so I put all my delay controls on two footswitches. The left one off gives me a single slap that I usually leave on for most things, hit the switch and my normal mix dual delay (fairly wet) comes on. The right switch will take that dual delay to a 50% mix. Holding the left switch kills all the delay. None, a little, a good bit, and a lot. That covers it and I don’t need to deal with menus live.

I’m capable of doing it on the unit with the menus I’d just rather not.

D
 
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