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Originally Posted by bongomania  There are a few uses for a loop.
1) Many pedals have crummy bypass switching built in, so an external loop allows us to avoid the "tone suck" caused by bad bypass.
2) Many loops allow blending the effected signal with the clean un-effected bass signal, which can often give a fuller, more articulate sound, with better low end.
3) Some loops allow the ability to switch between more than one chain of pedals, so e.g. you could have one loop that engages three pedals, and another loop than engages three other pedals.
4) A loop makes it so you can switch multiple effects on/off at the same time.
There are some other uses, but I think those are the main ones. |
I would throw an addendum to #2:
You may want two parallel chains to be effected differently. For instance, you may want your octave signal to be distorted while your clean signal is flanged then blended back together.
Those four are pretty solid.
