Whatever happened to the Katanas? *edit* now NAD

zepp76

Legionreturns said:

@zepp76 it's this one...

http://www.brightonion.co.uk/katana-preset-footswitch/

Thank you for the link, unfortunately it only switches between presets which is not what I'm after at the moment, I'll probably need one in the future after i finally delve deeper into the tone studio but for now I just want to be able to switch between the different gain stages and reverb but I don't think it will be possible.

bloodandtears

I don't know of anything that will allow the "cycle" of the 3 stages of each fx block..  unless the primovasound midi bridge will do this..

Legionreturns

zepp76 said:

Legionreturns said:

@zepp76 it's this one...

http://www.brightonion.co.uk/katana-preset-footswitch/

Thank you for the link, unfortunately it only switches between presets which is not what I'm after at the moment, I'll probably need one in the future after i finally delve deeper into the tone studio but for now I just want to be able to switch between the different gain stages and reverb but I don't think it will be possible.

You just programme each channel to use a different voice. Chanel a clean, b crunch etc... 

guitargeek62

zepp76 said:

Legionreturns said:

@zepp76 it's this one...

http://www.brightonion.co.uk/katana-preset-footswitch/

Thank you for the link, unfortunately it only switches between presets which is not what I'm after at the moment, I'll probably need one in the future after i finally delve deeper into the tone studio but for now I just want to be able to switch between the different gain stages and reverb but I don't think it will be possible.

I’m not sure you can on the 50 - at least, I couldn’t see a way to make it work that way out of the box, and that was part of the reason I went for the 100 too.

Legionreturns

That's how it works with the 100 as well. You can switch between channels, but only by assigning the different voices to the channels can you achieve what you're after.

It's possible on the head using a midi controller but that's it. 

zepp76

Legionreturns said:

That's how it works with the 100 as well. You can switch between channels, but only by assigning the different voices to the channels can you achieve what you're after.

It's possible on the head using a midi controller but that's it. 

@Legionreturns  Thank you for your help and advice. The problem I have at the moment is I don't have a computer/lap top, just an iPad so I can't programme the amp to assign patches, I think they missed a trick not allowing iPad/iPhone users to adjust the amp through their devices. Still, I'm happy with the amp and am in no rush to mess about with the tone studio, it is still very useable without delving into the software.

Legionreturns

Patches 1 - 4 are based on the four voices. If you go into each patch, turn off the fx (except reverb if you want that) and then save them direct to the amp, you'll have what you're after without using tone studio. You can change volume level, fx etc and save them as well.  

zepp76

Legionreturns said:

Patches 1 - 4 are based on the four voices. If you go into each patch, turn off the fx (except reverb if you want that) and then save them direct to the amp, you'll have what you're after without using tone studio. You can change volume level, fx etc and save them as well.  

Brilliant, that's good to know. Would you recommend the Bright onion over the official Boss FS-6?

Legionreturns

zepp76 said:

Legionreturns said:

Patches 1 - 4 are based on the four voices. If you go into each patch, turn off the fx (except reverb if you want that) and then save them direct to the amp, you'll have what you're after without using tone studio. You can change volume level, fx etc and save them as well.  

Brilliant, that's good to know. Would you recommend the Bright onion over the official Boss FS-6?

Honestly I've not used either, as I have the head. From what I've read, you would need 2 FS6s to achieve all the functionality of the Bright Onion.

HAL9000

zepp76 said:

Legionreturns said:

Patches 1 - 4 are based on the four voices. If you go into each patch, turn off the fx (except reverb if you want that) and then save them direct to the amp, you'll have what you're after without using tone studio. You can change volume level, fx etc and save them as well.  

Brilliant, that's good to know. Would you recommend the Bright onion over the official Boss FS-6?

Looking at it, I can't see that the Bright Onion does anything that the Boss FS-6 doesn't do. It just does it slightly differently. The Bright Onion uses four buttons - one for each bank/channel combination,  while the FS-6 uses one button to change banks and one to swap channels within the currently selected bank.

As others have already said, you can save your choice of settings to each of the presets without having to use a computer. (The computer just gives you a greater variety of effects.) So although you can’t actually turn reverb on or off from the footswitch, you could save settings that have differing amounts of reverb. Same goes for gain.

Hope this helps.

zepp76

HAL9000 said:

zepp76 said:

Legionreturns said:

Patches 1 - 4 are based on the four voices. If you go into each patch, turn off the fx (except reverb if you want that) and then save them direct to the amp, you'll have what you're after without using tone studio. You can change volume level, fx etc and save them as well.  

Brilliant, that's good to know. Would you recommend the Bright onion over the official Boss FS-6?

Looking at it, I can't see that the Bright Onion does anything that the Boss FS-6 doesn't do. It just does it slightly differently. The Bright Onion uses four buttons - one for each bank/channel combination,  while the FS-6 uses one button to change banks and one to swap channels within the currently selected bank.

As others have already said, you can save your choice of settings to each of the presets without having to use a computer. (The computer just gives you a greater variety of effects.) So although you can’t actually turn reverb on or off from the footswitch, you could save settings that have differing amounts of reverb. Same goes for gain.

Hope this helps.

@HAL9000  That's very helpful thank you. Now it's just a case of deciding which footswitch to go for, I'm guessing the Bright Onion will require less tap dancing to select a channel seeing as it has the four switches. I better start reading the instructions to learn how to assign different patches!

HAL9000

zepp76 said:

HAL9000 said:

zepp76 said:

Legionreturns said:

Patches 1 - 4 are based on the four voices. If you go into each patch, turn off the fx (except reverb if you want that) and then save them direct to the amp, you'll have what you're after without using tone studio. You can change volume level, fx etc and save them as well.  

Brilliant, that's good to know. Would you recommend the Bright onion over the official Boss FS-6?

Looking at it, I can't see that the Bright Onion does anything that the Boss FS-6 doesn't do. It just does it slightly differently. The Bright Onion uses four buttons - one for each bank/channel combination,  while the FS-6 uses one button to change banks and one to swap channels within the currently selected bank.

As others have already said, you can save your choice of settings to each of the presets without having to use a computer. (The computer just gives you a greater variety of effects.) So although you can’t actually turn reverb on or off from the footswitch, you could save settings that have differing amounts of reverb. Same goes for gain.

Hope this helps.

@HAL9000  That's very helpful thank you. Now it's just a case of deciding which footswitch to go for, I'm guessing the Bright Onion will require less tap dancing to select a channel seeing as it has the four switches. I better start reading the instructions to learn how to assign different patches!

Saving sounds really is a piece of cake. Just adjust everything until you get the sound you want. Then hold down the desired channel button for a few seconds. The LEDs will flash a bit to let you know that the current settings (except the master volume and wattage) has been saved to that channel. That’s it.

zepp76

A big thanks to @Legionreturns and @HAL9000 for your help and advice. I've ordered the Bright Onion, that should do the job. And my apologies to the OP for hijacking your thread!

grungebob

Anyone tried pedals into the amp yet? I hate it’s drive sounds and was wondering how it’s take some dirt pedals?

Adam_MD

grungebob said:

Anyone tried pedals into the amp yet? I hate it’s drive sounds and was wondering how it’s take some dirt pedals?

It’s fine it doesn’t take them as well as my deville but it’s perfectly usable.  I didn’t like the Drive sounds originally either and ended up boosting a lot of bass and cutting a lot of mids and treble to get Drive sounds I liked with a katana 50. 

grungebob

Adam_MD said:

grungebob said:

Anyone tried pedals into the amp yet? I hate it’s drive sounds and was wondering how it’s take some dirt pedals?

It’s fine it doesn’t take them as well as my deville but it’s perfectly usable.  I didn’t like the Drive sounds originally either and ended up boosting a lot of bass and cutting a lot of mids and treble to get Drive sounds I liked with a katana 50. 

Thanks. 

TA22GT

https://youtu.be/5JNZUYYcew0   

http://https//youtu.be/7JZxOG8vrpE

http://https//youtu.be/UKsI8Lf9OPo

I'm a huge fan of this guy! Antony Drennan. He uses the Katana live miced up. 

He plays for the Corrs and Mike & the Mechanics as well as millions of others. Fabulous player and really does make the Katana sound GOOD!!!

kennedydream1980

grungebob said:

Anyone tried pedals into the amp yet? I hate it’s drive sounds and was wondering how it’s take some dirt pedals?

I much preferred the Katanas with pedals compared to the in built drive sounds. This is my 2 Katana 50 combos running in stereo on the clean channels with a Blackstar HT Dual overdrive pedal into the front.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17rBTpf2YJBCMSUuOv-xS7A6ijgnSZ_Gp/view?usp=drivesdk

Creed_Clicks

So I take it people are using these mainly as pedal platforms? If so, how would they stack up against something like a Roland JC40 or similar?

guitargeek62

I've only used mine at home so far but I'm actually really liking the built-indrivve sounds! I've since picked up a GA-FC too, which helps a lot but it's a really versatile rig. The only odd part to me is that there's no built-in tuner.