 Hello everyone and welcome to Blackstar Potential. My name's Lee Fuge and I'm here with mjomusic.com and today we're going to look at the Silverline Special paired with the FS10 foot switch and see how that can be really versatile for a gigging musician. One of the ways I own my living is I travel all over the country playing at functions, weddings and private events. During these kind of performances I need access to a huge range of different guitar tones to cover a really wide range of songs throughout a set list. It has to be very diverse but I like to try and do that with the minimal amount of equipment because it's quite easy to take loads of different amps and loads of pedals to cover these huge huge set lists. But we can do all of this with the Silverline Special and the FS10 foot switch. Let's have a look how. The way I like to use the Silverline in conjunction with the FS10 foot switch is to imagine each of the banks is a different song. Now the Silverline itself has three banks of four. So there's four presets per bank, so that's 12 different sounds you can have. I like to view each one of these banks as an individual track. With the FS10 foot switch you can actually store up to 128 presets. Once again these are banked into groups of four which gives us 32 banks. Now that could be 32 different songs where we could have four presets for each song. This is where I find this really useful. Okay so let's start by dialing in some tones. Before we start, if you hold down foot switch number four the unit goes into the chromatic tuner mode. This is really useful when you're gigging and you want to mute your signal or tune your guitar. Press the button again to go back to normal mode. The foot switch has four buttons and it has three different modes. So right now we're set on patch mode where each foot switch changes between a different patch in the amplifier. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to set patch number one with my first tone. So let's say the first one I'm going to program in is Sweet Home Alabama by Leonard Skinnet. This is a track that gets played all the time at various weddings and functions by most function bands. All right so the first tone I'm going to dial in is using the clean bright voice with the 6v6 response. I'm going to put the spring reverb on so that's the third light there on your effects with the reverb button selected. The ISF is all the way to the American side and I'm keeping the EQ pretty straight for this. Because I'm using the clean bright channel I've got the gain all the way up and I've got the volume about three quarters of the way up as well. So here's an example of that sort of clean just broken up Leonard Skinnet style tone. Okay so I'm happy with that tone now I want to save. To save the tone I need to hold down the first foot switch and then hold it down again till it goes to store mode. The third light will be lit up I want to press this button here and the screen will start flashing. This means now preset one is being selected for saving so I will press that again and I've now created that patch. So patch one in my first bank is my clean broken up tone. So now I want to make a slightly crunchier tone. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the same patch and I'm going to duplicate it. So the first thing I'm going to do is while I'm in store mode I'm going to press that button again but now I'm going to press the bank up button to change this to number two. Then I'm going to press store and now I've duplicated that patch to position two. So if I go back to patch mode which is the top LED position one and two are both the same patch. So now I can start editing number two. So the first thing I'm going to do is turn this to the crunch channel but keep the gain all the way down. I'm not going to change anything else. I'm just going to go straight back to store mode, save, make sure that's on number two, save it again. So now I have a clean just broken up tone on patch one and patch two is my crunchier tone. Okay so now I'm going to make an overdriven tone. So this is for the chorus, bit of a rocky moment in the track. So what I'm going to do is the same thing. I'm going to come to my store mode, I'm going to press save, bank up to number three and duplicate that patch. So patch number three is now the same as patch number two. Here's where I can now do some more editing. So I'm already on the crunch channel. I'm just going to push the gain up to about halfway. I'm not going to do any more than that. I'm going to check my tone. Okay so I'm quite happy with that as a crunch. So I'm going to save that patch. So once again I'm going to come down to store mode, make sure number three is selected. Once that flashes I'll press that again. So now I've got three very different patches. I've got number one which is my clean with a slight break up. Number two which is my crunch. Number three which is my overdrive. So here's a rundown of those sounds. Now I want to make a lead tone. So once again we're going to go back into store mode and I'm going to use my overdriven tone as the basis. So I'm going to press save so that flashes. I'm going to bank up to patch number four and I'm going to save it there. So I've duplicated patch number three onto patch number four. Now to make my overdriven tone I'm going to keep it the same. I'm going to keep on the crunch channel. I'm going to push the gain a little bit more and I'm also going to make sure the volume is all the way up just so I get a little bit of extra boost. I'm going to come down here now and I'm going to save that again. So save that now to patch number four. What I also want to do is I also want to add a little bit of slapback delay. So I'm going to select the delay button select my analog delay which is my first up to my first led and I'm going to set the level and the rate pretty slow. Once I'm happy with the delay I'm then going to click save again and save. So now I've got a lead tone with a little bit more gain than the previous one and a little bit of slapback delay. It should be a bit louder too so here's what I've got. So I'm pretty happy with that as a lead tone so I'm just going to save it again just to make sure that I've got that saved. One of the cool things of the foot switch is I can edit things in real time when I'm playing. So if I decide that I don't want my lead patch to have the slapback delay all I have to do is hold the first foot switch to get to effect mode which is the middle led. Once this is selected I can then press this foot switch to turn the delay off. When effect mode is selected the leds at the top show me which of my effects are active so foot switch number one controls the reverb so I can turn my reverb on and off my delay on and off and my modulation on and off. Now I'm not using any modulation for this song but if I wanted to I could turn that off. If I hold this foot switch for the delay it activates the tap tempo switch for the delay. If I hold that down this led now is flashing in time with my delay so if I tap tempo this quicker that light speeds up and if I go slower it slows my delay down. I don't need to change that so I'm just going to come back into patch mode and reload my patch so now I'm back to where it was. So I'm quite happy with those four banks so I've got clean with a slight breakup crunch overdrive and then overdrive with slapback delay for lead. All right so once I'm happy with my four tones I can come back to patch one and now I'm going to create a second bank so I'm going to hold the third foot switch which says hold bank up and that's going to take me to preset five that's because I had one selected. If I bank back down by holding the down switch if I select number three it automatically takes me up four banks so if I do that again I'm still on channel three or patch three but patch number seven because I'm in the second bank so I want to go to number five which is my first foot switch this is my first preset of my second bank so let's view this as the second song. So I'm going to program in another tone another track that most function bands play is decoded by the Stereophonics. This is a cool one because it's got a nice modulated intro so we're going to program in a cleanish flanger tone so I'm already on my first patch of my second bank so let's view this as four presets for my next song so I'm going to program in my new tone now so I'm going to use the crunch channel again I want to be quite moderate so about halfway I want quite a warm sound so I'm going to bump the bass ISF I'm keeping in the middle and I'm engaging the KT88 setting I'm going to put the modulation dial on so I'm going to select that so it turns orange the second light here is my flanger and I've got the level up just over halfway I've also got a spring reverb activated too so let's check this tone out because I'm quite happy with that so I'm going to save that now so I'm going to come back down to the store mode press save make sure number five is flashing and I'm going to save there's my first patch so now that I've saved that I'm going to duplicate that and create my second sound so I'm going to press the store button press up to take that to six and I'm going to store again so now I've got the same patch on number one and number two which is five and six so this tone I want to dial in a similar tone but I don't want the flanger but I want a bit of delay in there so I'm going to turn the flanger off and I'm going to turn the delay on so once I've selected the delay I'm going to go for an analog style delay so I'm going to put the second light there on I'm going to set it about here just to get a good feel and I'm also going to turn the gain down just a touch so what I want to do is I want to change the length of the delay repeats so I'm going to save this patch first of all into patch number six then I'm going to come into the effects mode so that's the second LED here and I want to tap the foot switch here to get this to change tempo so I'm first of all going to hold that down to make sure the delay tap is enabled then I'm going to tap this to get my tempo so I want about that sort of speed so I'm happy with that so now I'm going to come back down to store mode and I'm going to save it so now I want to create a similar tone without the delay so the easy way for me to do this is to come into store mode save it first of all bank up to number seven and click store so now I've duplicated what was on number six into number seven so now that I've duplicated number six into number seven I want to change the delay tone so first of all I'm going to come into the effects mode and you can see the delay light is lit up I'm just going to turn that off then I'm going to come to store and I'm going to save that into bank number seven this is by slightly cleaner tone for the verse so again I'm quite happy with that so I'm just going to save that again just to make sure now I need to duplicate this patch into number eight so I'm going to bank up so that's on eight and I'm going to save it again and now I want to create a higher gain tone so using that as by basis I'm just going to crank the gain and I'm going to go on to the super crunch channel so let's just push this a little bit more and let's check this tone this will be my chorus tone so I'm happy with that so I'm going to save that as well make sure that's saved in bank number eight so once again eight is selected that's stored so now I have four distinctive settings for this song let's run through those patches so we've got the first patch which is number five now because this is the second bank this is my just off clean flanger tone my second patch which is number six is going to be my cleanish lead tone with a little bit of delay my third patch which shows up as number seven now because this is the third one of my second bank this is my slightly cleanish verse tone and the final patch which is my fourth patch which shows up as number eight this is my heavy chorus tone so as you can see you can apply this logic to any song you want if you think of the tones you need for a song and you can break that down into four central tones you can create up to 32 banks using the foot switch this makes the silverline special a great amp for a gigging musician you've got a bunch of effects built in so you've got phaser flanger chorus and tremolo four different delay types and four different reverb types coupled with six different voices and two responses and the isf you can pretty much dial in an entire set's worth of tones just with the amp and the foot switch alone so this makes it a fantastic tool for gigging function musicians if you're someone like me who really needs a lot of tones for one gig this is a great combination all you need is the amp your guitar and the fs 10 foot switch and you can pretty much program your entire set list into their 32 songs four patches for each song that's 128 different sounds all in a tiny foot switch like this and it's got a tuner as well there you go there are some fun tips on dialing in some tones on the silverline special with the fs 10 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