Changing tones on the fly.

[Andrew Saunders]

I’m wondering how people are able to switch between distorted tones and a clean tone in the middle of a song. I’ve noticed people do something with the effects on the guitar to make it sound clean. For example syn does this before he plays the interlude on so far away.

 

[Filip Tomiša]

They have a foot switch pedal and they have presets on them and then they just switch between them

 

[idssdi]

Foot switch like with the axe-fx you have a floorboard with a bunch of presets and you can just press one and change the tone.
Or effect pedals where people go and tap dance for a bit

 

[Rad Synner]

Yes exactly. Though in syn’s case, I think its probably his guitar tech who switches him for him backstage since im pretty sure he knows the whole set and he knows exactly when to switch. I dont think ive ever seen a pedal board on avenged’s stage in years

 

[Dominik Gräber]

Yep, all true. My first amp had that feature, the Fender Mustang. With a footpedal you could switch between two saved channels. Damn I miss that feature.