Guitar Amps & Effects For Dummies by Hunter Dave

Author:Hunter, Dave [Hunter, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Itzy, Kickass.so
ISBN: 9781118900000
Amazon: B00MODPX4Y
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2014-08-03T10:48:08+00:00

Photograph by Dave Hunter

Figure 8-15: A parallel loop, as seen on this Colby Mod Machine, is the more advanced of the effects loops, and usually offers controls for output and return levels.

Why not just put everything in front of the amp, where you use many traditional stomp-box type pedals? Some effects work better by processing your guitar signal after its gain and EQ have been shaped by the amp’s first couple of stages, so that you are effecting the overdriven and EQ’d tone, for example, rather than overdriving and EQ’ing the effected tone. This distinction may seem like splitting hairs, but treating the signal to different stages in a different order really does make things sound different.

Effects most commonly used in effects loops are echo/delay, reverb, and some modulation effects like chorus and tremolo. Gain-influencing effects such as overdrive, fuzz, distortion, boost, and compression are usually not used in an effects loop, because they are intended to boost the first stage of the amp rather than the output stage (put another way, they are part of the overall gain-shaping of the rig, and that’s something that should all have happened by the time the signal reaches the output stage).

I discuss the use of effects loops and the types of effects that go in them in more detail in Chapter 15.

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