If you use clean amps, stop using FX loops

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If you use clean amps, stop using FX loops

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Makes your pedals sound like shit. They sound so much more powerful going through those tubes. Even if your amp gets slightly driven, let it coat your effects with that beautiful dirt. JUST STOP BEING A PUSSY!
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fx loops do not seem enjoyable for the sole fact that it needs to more cables to operate properly. the most breakable thing in the world is a fucking guitar cable
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fcknoise wrote:fx loops do not seem enjoyable for the sole fact that it needs to more cables to operate properly. the most breakable thing in the world is a fucking guitar cable
Yeah thats a faff but if thats the reason you don't like fx loops, you have your priorities wrong.
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Woolworm wrote:
fcknoise wrote:fx loops do not seem enjoyable for the sole fact that it needs to more cables to operate properly. the most breakable thing in the world is a fucking guitar cable
Yeah thats a faff but if thats the reason you don't like fx loops, you have your priorities wrong.
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coupleonapkins wrote:
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fcknoise wrote:fx loops do not seem enjoyable for the sole fact that it needs to more cables to operate properly. the most breakable thing in the world is a fucking guitar cable
Yeah thats a faff but if thats the reason you don't like fx loops, you have your priorities wrong.
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Woolworm wrote:
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fcknoise wrote:fx loops do not seem enjoyable for the sole fact that it needs to more cables to operate properly. the most breakable thing in the world is a fucking guitar cable
Yeah thats a faff but if thats the reason you don't like fx loops, you have your priorities wrong.
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fcknoise wrote:fx loops do not seem enjoyable for the sole fact that it needs to more cables to operate properly. the most breakable thing in the world is a fucking guitar cable
Yeah thats a faff but if thats the reason you don't like fx loops, you have your priorities wrong.
I don't know about priorities. I just have such alpha BDE that i would run a mausoleum thru a 5w amp.
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the proof is in the evolution of fender's tech in the 60s

pre-64: spring tank > preamp > power amp : fucking wild, splashy, noisy, VISCERALLY alive sound, can kick the tank
post-64: preamp > reverb/trem > power amp : tame, more subtle, less wild and cool, kicking an amp is a hack move
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I only use filthy amplifiers. What do I do?
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Yer mum's a filthy amplifier.
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FX loops on clean amps are great if you are on that rack shit :cool:
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vidret wrote:you're obviously wrong pal, FX loops are meant for time-based effects and not for the preamp to process.

Look up any "how to arrange effects" video or article and you'll see they'll tell you to put delays and reverbs (but sometimes phasers and flangers) in the loop, just as you would put them after dirt if you didn't have a loop.
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MechaGodzilla wrote:the proof is in the evolution of fender's tech in the 60s

pre-64: spring tank > preamp > power amp : fucking wild, splashy, noisy, VISCERALLY alive sound, can kick the tank
post-64: preamp > reverb/trem > power amp : tame, more subtle, less wild and cool, kicking an amp is a hack move
Wow did not know that. Are there any pre-64 re-issues fender have done? Cos I heard they spec them exactly as they were. Except for maybe speakers.
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