4212 Combo Effects Send Questions

[Len Rabinowitz]

First one easy (I think) second one kind of complicated.

1. I have a Boss RC-50 looper. Play a clean riff and record it. It plays back clean. Great! I switch to a distortion channel to solo over it. The loop stays clean. I like that, but I don't understand it. Shouldn't it be distorted in the distortion channel?

2. I have three effects in the chain in the following order: Send-Chorus-Delay-Looper-Return. Remember that the Looper is not an effect like the others- It's a recorder. We had a pretty involved thread up here about it and decided that this was the best order.

I was reading the manual about the effects send and series vs. parallel. Is there a kind of fundamental incompatibility here between the chorus and delay on the one side and the looper on the other? It seems to me that the chorus and delay should be series while the Looper should be parallel.

Right now I am running it all parallel in the order mentioned above. It sounds good, but sometimes I get some funny level problems with the loops. Probably the settings on the looper, but I am still learning this.

What do you guys think? Answers? Suggestions?


Thanks!

 

[Violin Player 75]

the prerecorded loop will stay clean, unless you put it before the preamp.

it will just loop back what it is given... the preamp distortion happens before the effects send in the signal chain, therefore changing the preamp input will not "distort" sound that has passed downstream already.

Now, if you crank the power amp, and get that distortion, then the looper will distort.

 

[Len Rabinowitz]

In essence it is in a different part of the signal path, then. I thought it might be something like that.

Any thoughts on the other question?