As a couple of you saw, I posted looking for recommendations on a new amp. I'm intrigued now by a couple pieces I've seen available used locally - a Fender Ultra Chorus and a Peavey Special Chorus 212. My only concern with either one is that on neither amp are the chorus and reverb functions both controllable via the footswitches. (The Laney LV looks promising online, but I haven't found one available locally and I'm a believer in "try before you buy").
This isn't a deal-breaker at all - in between songs, I can go "old school" and, you know, use the amp knobs, and if I need to change settings a lot mid-song, I can get a pedal to take care of that. However, if I were to find a reliable, reasonably price way to render both reverb and chorus independently footswitchable, then why not?
So that's my question - is there a way to modify the circuit on a solid state amp to render certain effects footswitchable?
If this is a stupid question, please go easy on me; the only amp work I have ever done was to replace a blown fuse once. I wish to apologize in advance for my ignorance.
EDIT: I think that on the Fender Ultra Chorus, the chorus effect is controllable via footswitch while the reverb is not. I might actually have that backwards, but I know that at least one of the two is not "footswitchable."
Again, if this isn't doable, then I'm happy taking either unit as-is. It just seems most practical to be able to turn onboard effects on or off the way one would turn an effect pedal on or off.
This isn't a deal-breaker at all - in between songs, I can go "old school" and, you know, use the amp knobs, and if I need to change settings a lot mid-song, I can get a pedal to take care of that. However, if I were to find a reliable, reasonably price way to render both reverb and chorus independently footswitchable, then why not?
So that's my question - is there a way to modify the circuit on a solid state amp to render certain effects footswitchable?
If this is a stupid question, please go easy on me; the only amp work I have ever done was to replace a blown fuse once. I wish to apologize in advance for my ignorance.
EDIT: I think that on the Fender Ultra Chorus, the chorus effect is controllable via footswitch while the reverb is not. I might actually have that backwards, but I know that at least one of the two is not "footswitchable."
Again, if this isn't doable, then I'm happy taking either unit as-is. It just seems most practical to be able to turn onboard effects on or off the way one would turn an effect pedal on or off.