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Having been reading about using the volume pedal in the loop, so I bought a low impedance Boss volume pedal that came today. Connected it up with a chorus in the loop on my Hughes and Kettner Duotone. Powered everything up and no volume control, WTF. So I'm looking at the amp and here's this knob I never used before, labeled FX-Level. Crank that baby to full and I discovered that the volume pedal only controls the chorus volume because......... the amp is a parallel FX loop amp, DUH. Never even thought of that. I thought they were all series, so having an FX-Level pot is another DUH.

I haven't looked into the Evil Twin FX loop yet. Was too bummed, but certainly my fault.
 
Yeah I don't get these parallel effects loops, I've heard of people having them modded into serial loops

So glad that the Peavey 5150/6505 series have series loops, very simple to use
 
Most of my pedals that I use in the effects loop have an effect level pot on them anyway, which allows you to adjust each individual pedal. To my mind the parallel loop idea is awful
 
Dave Sloven said:
Most of my pedals that I use in the effects loop have an effect level pot on them anyway, which allows you to adjust each individual pedal. To my mind the parallel loop idea is awful
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I agree, I can't understand what it is meant for, maybe someone can 'splain. :cool:
 
smitty_p said:
The idea behind a parallel loop is that you can blend some of the dry, unprocessed guitar signal along with the wet, processed signal.
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But that’s not the way it’s wired. It blends some of the effects loop into the always there dry. If I set the FX-Level to 0 I get no chorus and all dry. If I set it to 10 I get chorus and the volume pedal will control the chorus volume, but there is full on dry there all the time.

If it was the other way around I could use it, meaning at 0 there would be no dry. But NOOOOOOOOOOOO
 
Please keep the info rolling on this subject. I always wanted to understand more about fx loops, the different types, and how to use them properly or improperly.
 
Dave Sloven said:
Yeah I don't get these parallel effects loops, I've heard of people having them modded into serial loops
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If I could track down the schematic I’d do the mod. It should be a really simple mod like cutting the dry from the mixer IC and grounding the input. Turn FX-Level to 10 and it’s a serial loop.
 
Don O said:
Having been reading about using the volume pedal in the loop, so I bought a low impedance Boss volume pedal that came today. Connected it up with a chorus in the loop on my Hughes and Kettner Duotone. Powered everything up and no volume control, WTF. So I'm looking at the amp and here's this knob I never used before, labeled FX-Level. Crank that baby to full and I discovered that the volume pedal only controls the chorus volume because......... the amp is a parallel FX loop amp, DUH. Never even thought of that. I thought they were all series, so having an FX-Level pot is another DUH.

I haven't looked into the Evil Twin FX loop yet. Was too bummed, but certainly my fault.
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WTF????

I've never heard of such a thing!!!!
 
Don O said:
But that’s not the way it’s wired. It blends some of the effects loop into the always there dry. If I set the FX-Level to 0 I get no chorus and all dry. If I set it to 10 I get chorus and the volume pedal will control the chorus volume, but there is full on dry there all the time.

If it was the other way around I could use it, meaning at 0 there would be no dry. But NOOOOOOOOOOOO
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I have to admit, that is a new one on me.

I don’t think I’d like that, either.
 
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