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  • noun A switch or pedal controlled by the foot.

Etymologies

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foot +‎ switch

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Examples

  • This amp has 3 seperate channels and you can Switch channels on the fly with the footswitch, which is well built and solid.

    All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com 2010

  • (Reverb, Delay, Phaser, Flanger and Chorus) built into the amp, each of the effects can be applied to each of the channels and turned on and off with the footswitch which is provided with the amp.

    All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com 2010

  • Jon Aquino's Mental Garden: 3-pedal footswitch for programming and browsing

    3-pedal footswitch for programming and browsing Jonathan Aquino 2007

  • In the next month, I'm getting both my ears peirced, I need to buy a new footswitch for my guitar amp, a new metal zone pedal (thats a big one, that will be around a hundred dollars), and luckily that's really it.

    mesocyclone Diary Entry mesocyclone 2006

  • Auto-record on Jamman that can be initiated by the extra footswitch.

    Tori, Cary badger 2005

  • The old Digitech FS-300 footswitch (current model is FS-3X, same features) that I got to use with my Electrix Repeater (Mk I) works perfectly with the Jamman.

    Tori, Cary badger 2005

  • It is a footswitch too, so if concealment is the order of the day, no-one will find it but the cleaners....

    Archive 2005-05-01 2005

  • After a half-hour of knob-tweaking and experimentation the pedal has more control than I thought at first, although I'm already thinking I want to mod it by moving the sub-octave switch to a steppable footswitch on the front instead of the small almost hidden sliding switch on the back.

    homeopathic shopping for black paisley badger 2004

  • Minor complaint: the new optional footswitch used to set tap-tempo for the MuRF which also works with the Moog Voyager synth if I ever buy one is pretty loud in a metal clanking way.

    media review: books, DVDs, tv, Bloomsday badger 2004

  • Also I discovered the Digitech FS-300 3-button footswitch I'd bought to use with my Electrix Repeater works great as the reverse/forward play switch on the RC-20.

    reverberations from the deep and the use of weapons #[RAND] badger 2003

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