Snapshots, and why your sound cuts out
The difference between a preset, a snapshot and a stomp — and why picking the wrong one leaves an audible gap.
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One preset per song, one snapshot per section. Changing preset reloads everything and cuts your delay and reverb tails; changing snapshot does not.
Three layers
A preset is a whole rig. A snapshot is a saved position of the controls inside that rig. A stomp is one footswitch turning one block on and off.
There are eight snapshots in every preset on this device.
Only one of them has a gap
Changing preset unloads every block and loads a new set. That takes a moment, and during that moment your delay and reverb tails are cut off. It sounds like a fault and it is not — it is what switching costs.
Changing snapshot loads nothing. The blocks are already there; only their settings move. So it happens instantly and the tails carry through.
The practical rule
If a change happens inside a song — verse to chorus, clean to solo — it should be a snapshot. If it happens between songs, a preset is fine.
The exception is anything you want to reach on impulse rather than on a plan: a boost, a bit of chaos. That is what stomp mode is for, and it sits alongside snapshots rather than instead of them.
Snapshots and modes →