https://s2.postimg.org/hs0dnll3t/NAD2.jpgSo pleased with it, and what a massive difference in sound quality from the Mustang.
Quick questions for all you more knowledgeable types:
Currently I have on my mini pedal board Tuner > Sweet Cream (drive) > Joyo Quattro Delay > Dual Looper. The Mustang didn't have an FX loop, so everything went in front. As a result of that, I had to use the effects from my pedals and ME80 (which I'm now not using - see separate sales thread!) into a clean setting on the amp.
I'm just waiting for the footswitch (Roland GA FC) to arrive, which means I can set a lot of things up as channels on the amp and use the controller to switch things on and off,which will negate the need for a lot of these individual pedals. I do still want to use the looper and tuner. So, should I go Guitar > Tuner > Amp > Send > Looper > Return? And if I decided to keep the Sweet Cream and Delay pedal, should they slot in to the FX loop or before the amp? Are they actually worth keeping given that the Katana has pretty much every Boss Pedal available to include as part of your chain using the software, and then save as 4 different channels? I can also switch on a noise gate within the software on each channel independently using the software, so this will negate the need for a separate pedal. Right?
Second question: The GA FC says it needs a stereo lead despite it being a mono amp. Can anyone tell me why?
Finally, Boss says that you should only use their own expression pedals, or you might damage your amp. This sounds like standard bollocks to me, but can anyone tell me different? The footswitch has jacks for volume & expression so to do both I'd either need 2 of them or 1 and a switch. Right?
Sorry for all the questions, but between you you've got like a million years more experience with this shit!
Cheers!
Chris
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Answer to the 2nd question - it's nothing to do with whether the amp is stereo or not, it is just that it requires 2 circuits to control the different functions.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youTry the sweet cream cream in the front and the delay in the loop as well, either before or after the looper pedal.
See what sounds good. There are hundreds of guys on here putting £40 dirt boxes into £2k plus amps.
If it sounds good.
It IS good.
It's very unlikely that a non-Boss expression pedal could damage the amp, but it may not work properly - there are different conventions for expression pedal wiring. But the Boss expression pedals are pretty good, in fact.
I think in theory you could use a footswitch to select either function using just one expression pedal, but I'm not certain what would happen to the other parameter when you switch - it's unlikely to remain where you last had it, more likely to either go to full or zero, which may not be very useful.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youCracking amp they are.
You can indeed. I use mine for this and it works perfectly.
I have the 50w, so it doesn't have the line-out unfortunately. Couldn't tell you about the 100w.