Vlog #4 - i have been asked about the benefits of using the effects loop as opposed to going through the front of the amp. let me demonstrate the differences and let your ears be the judge. in. Third, because the entire signal is routed through the loop you can experiment by putting effects normally found between guitar and amp in the loop. effects like compressors, eqs, wahs, etc. can sound awfully good when plugged into a series loop. experiment! so how does it work? take a look at the diagram.. If your amp has an effect loop, you might be among the many guitarists who aren’t exactly sure what it’s for. you might wonder why you can’t just run your effects in front of the amp—and you might not understand the full potential of this simple but handy device..
Is there a correct guitar pedal order? every guitarist will move into using effects pedals in their signal chain, which is when the chaos starts. what the heck is an effects loop? why is there more than one output on a pedal? this is the same plight mix engineers and keyboardists deal with.. An effects loop is a series of audio effects units, connected between two points of a signal path (the route that a signal would travel from the input to the output); usually between the pre-amp and power amp stages of an amplifier circuit, although occasionally between two pre-amp stages. the two principal uses of effects loops are in recordings and in instrument amplifiers.. In a typical guitar amplifier, there is the preamp stage and the power amp stage. the effects loop is almost always placed right between the two. the idea is that your preamp channel switches between clean and overdrive tones, feeds into your effects via the effects loop, then back into the power amp stage..
