RV owners - advice on tone variety for gigging

[spyeman]

This is a bit long winded, so please bear with. I'm a gigging classic rocker, and a lead player. Our band switches songs, and thus tones, quick. Plus, I sometimes need multiple tones within one song. My RV clean tone and lead tones are to die for, I love them, but there are many songs I need tones that are in between. What I want to avoid is backing off my lead tone to get these "middle tones" (think Stones, moderate dirt) and then using a pedal to boost it up for leads - I want to keep that lead tone pure Orange as it sounds so great. And, I don't want to have to boost or dirty my clean channel as then when I go for a lead, I have to switch channels and then turn the boost off, too much work. Maybe this is too confusing, I guess the question really is:

How are gigging players getting multiple tones from their Rockerverbs that is easy to do and quick? Guess I'm looking for that right pedal set-up.

As a side, I have a H&K switchblade that is full midi, I mean it's a dream to gig with, you can have ANY tone you want instantly, you can go as far as to set a bank of tones for each individual song if you want to, but, it doesn't sound as good as the RV!!!!

Thanks for any ideas.

[blackcloud45]

Guitar volume / tone knobs.

[spyeman]

Really? What are those? Where are they on the guitar? This could be the answer I've been looking for!!!!

[blackcloud45]

Happy to help .

[screamingdaisy]

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That's how I do it.

The Rockerverb pedalboard is pretty strait forward... wah -> Fulldrive 2 -> Amp

I use the guitar volume knob to get me everywhere from mild OD ot raging lead tones. I use the Fulldrive if I need a lead that has more midrange cut or more sustain. The wah is for colour.

[MaxProphet]

ah hrmm. why don't you put an od pedal (or w/e for your "middle tone") in with a channel switch loop; clean, clean+drive, lead

you can switch directly to lead and use the pedal to change "clean channels"

[Orphin]

...and if you don't have time to reach for the guitar volume, you could either get a volume pedal or use a clean boost but to lower the volume with instead of increasing it.
If you still feel that the clean boost colors your sound, you could just make a box with a volume pot inside, which will work the same as turning down the guitars volume.

I know in my band I don't have time to reach for volume controls, so either lower the volume with a stomp box or switch pickups on the guitar and have the volume set lower on the neck pickup.