Hiya, so I never have really used amp effects loops but now I have an amp where I will be. I don't want to put the loop pedals on my board and run cables out and back to them, so I think I'll probably use a Gigrig Loopy 2 or something to control them from the front.
My question is: Where do people put these pedals? I don't really want to precariously balance them on top of the head, and there's not much room there anyway. Get a small table to put behind the cab? Velcro them to the back of the cab? Just sit them on the floor behind the cab?
All ideas welcome!
Thanks!
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Unhelpful extra: These days I've only got one amp with an effects loop. It's an AMP1, so that sits on my board next to the HX FX anyway, and the only long cable is the one running to the speaker cab.
The Flashback is in the loop of my amp. The box in the top left is a simple 4-way I/O patch box. The connections from the top are:
1 - To amp input
2 - From amp Send
3 - To amp Return
4 - To amp channel switch
I then have a 4-way cable snake with jacks on each end. Setting up is almost as simple as putting everything in front of the amp.
This would work just as well with a much bigger board with loads of pedals in the loop - the connections to the amp are the same either way.
Just be careful to keep the grounds separate between the pedals in front of the amp and the ones in the loop - they can't be linked either via a non-isolated power supply, a connections box like the one digitalscream has, or even by the pedal casings and/or plugs touching each other - or you'll have a ground loop which will probably cause hum. Likewise any amp footswitch connections need to be kept separate.
digitalscream will know this .
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With patches you can store setting for each song.
i do sometimes use the extra wires to the pedalboard with my DSL. The pedalboard has a pre row and an ‘in the loop row’, its only a couple of extra wires and you can tape them together.