I've been using the groove bass head (1200) for a few years now and recently bought a dbx266xl compressor to help even out my sound. I got a nice sound through the input of the amp but i'd rather run it through the effects loop, the problem herein lies. For whatever reason i lose about 3/4 of my volume as soon as i use the effects loop, the only thing i can think of is using a preamp in the loop to boost the output but can't experiment with that until Sunday when i am back in the practice space, does anyone know why i'm losing the volume in the first place?
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Help with a kustom Groove bass head
- Thread starter TheSpectorKid
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I have a Groove1200 as well, and I've noticed that it has a REALLY hot effects loop. When you put the compressor in the loop, the comp will clamp down and cut your volume by a lot. The 1200 has enough power that it shouldn't be an issue, but it is kind of inconvenient.
yea its become a massive problem because the only way to get near enough power with the loop is to crank the gain and volume while using the solo channel and it still wasnt loud enough... I'm gonna experiment with the pre-amp tomorrow.
Have you tried raising the threshold and lowering the ratio on your compressor? That's probably going to be your best bet. Adding more gain from the preamp is just going to cause more compression.
Yea i tried all of it, the compressor sounds great running through the input, i'm thinking about putting the pre-amp after the compressor in the chain so the signal is running through the pre-amp already compressed, so it isn't just more compressed singal, but if that doesn't work i'll simply have to just run through the input and have a crap load of wires running around my rack as opposed to a nice neat setup.
i'll have an open rack space to run the cables through i'd just rather use the loop for what it's designed for.
