I am new to using pedals. First of all I Use an Orange Crush 100 amp. It has a foot switch that switches from clean to dirty sound. I have a compression pedal, a volume pedal. And a tuner pedal. My amp has an FX loop is there any reason I should run any of these pedals through the FX loop or should they all go directly into the input of the amp?
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Pedal set up
- Thread starter msr042118
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Most pedals are designed to work better going into the input of an amp. There are exceptions but for the ones you mentioned I would use the input. Exceptions would be for the occasional modulation, delay or reverb that often work better post your preamp.
You can use the fx loop, but IME it's just a PITA and not worth the extra work.
There are certain pedals that your amp will benefit from having at the front. The tuner for sure, because you want to mute the sound when you’re tuning, and the compressor. Your amp will work harder with an uncompressed signal, and It improves the sound of your bass going to the amp. If you ever get a high pass filter or a low pass filter, those should go at the front too, for the same reason as the compressor. Pretty much everything else is OK to put in the FX loop.
I've never really found a good reason to use an FX loop. Just adds extra cables to the signal chain. More cables = more potential points of failure.
The only pedals you should put into the loop are the time bases effects (Delay and reverb) - and that only really matters if you use the drive from the amp.
No. There's no reason to do it.
Nevertheless, you can try it and actually experiment what happens if you do.
Nevertheless, you can try it and actually experiment what happens if you do.
