Do Any Blend Boxes Allow For Switching Between Bypass, 50/% Wet, And 100% Wet?

**Bryan R. Tyler** · #1 02-10-2008, 09:55 AM

I'm looking at blenders again, and was going to opt for a Barge X (anyone know if the VB with the X mod will be available this month?), and was curious if anything was able to switch between a pure signal, a 100% wet signal, and a50% wet siganl with footswitches? The Boss LS-2 looks like it can only do one or the other.

Also, I usually use a stereo setup to get a 50/50 or 100% wet mix, and obviously there's no volume loss when doing it this way. Does the VFB-X or similar show a volume drop when centered? My only blending experience was with an EB stereo pan pedal which didn't work so great and had a volume drop from both the effected and clean signal when centered.

bongomania · #2 02-10-2008, 10:00 AM

The Xotic does this. Two switches- one for bypass and one to switch between "blended" (any amount) and "100% wet". Any passive blender will have the volume drop you experienced; the Xotic and Barge are active blenders. IDK about the Boss, but I'd imagine it's active as well.

dannybuoy · #3 02-10-2008, 10:03 AM

Barge Concepts can do custom jobs for you, the Xotic blender has a blend knob large enought for you to nudge with your foot, there's a Morley unit that controls the blend with an expression pedal, and I think the Boss LS-2 has a mode where the footswitch cycles between A/B/A+B (which is almost what you want, but instead of a 50/50 blend it will be a sum of 2 entire signals, resulting in a louder output)!

**Bryan R. Tyler** · #4 02-10-2008, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by bongomania

The Xotic does this. Two switches- one for bypass and one to switch between "blended" (any amount) and "100% wet". Any passive blender will have the volume drop you experienced; the Xotic and Barge are active blenders. IDK about the Boss, but I'd imagine it's active as well.

I was actually looking at the Xotic site when you posted this

I couldn't find how the Blend switch can be set as 100% as well as 50% (or whatever setting you choose). Does it just inherently switch between 100% wet and your choice of blended signal?

pickles · #5 02-10-2008, 10:24 AM

I'd recommend a custom barge to handle this operation as well as anything else you might need the box to do!

Higgie · #6 02-10-2008, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Bryan R. Tyler

Does it just inherently switch between 100% wet and your choice of blended signal?

Yup, that's exactly how it works. A footswitch to bypass the pedal, and a footswitch to toggle between 100% wet, and whatever blend amount you set with the knob.

**Bryan R. Tyler** · #7 02-10-2008, 10:38 AM

Well then, it looks like that's what I'm getting

I waited forever for the VFB-X to come out last year, but during that time I found through using two amps I pretty much just like 50% or 100% wet. Thanks guys!

BTW, does the LED on the blend switch change at all to let you know you're at 100% or your blended setting?

bongomania · #8 02-10-2008, 11:37 AM

Yes. LED "on" = blended, "off" = 100% wet.

Unrepresented · #9 02-10-2008, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Bryan R. Tyler

Well then, it looks like that's what I'm getting

I waited forever for the VFB-X to come out last year, but during that time I found through using two amps I pretty much just like 50% or 100% wet. Thanks guys!

BTW, does the LED on the blend switch change at all to let you know you're at 100% or your blended setting?

Ditto what all of them saids.

Two switches, two different color LED's one for switching between 100% wet and the other for the blend that's been preselected by the giant knob in the center.

Very happy with mine.