question on new tube amp....

[bottledgt]

i havent been playing long, but i bought a good amp so i wouldnt get bored. so far its worked, but got a question on some boss pedals i have.. ive got a peavey valveking 212. it has the effects loop circuit on the front of the amp. am i supposed to run pedals through this? they sound terrible that way and i get major feedback if i turn it up any at all. if i run inline from the guitar to the input jack, they sound great. or maybe im hooking it up wrong. i dont know much about any of this yet, and dont wanna blow something up

[BKHamre]

I've always been told if I'm using pedals to keep my amp on a clean setting, and if I want to use the digital effects of the amp turn the pedals off so I can use one or the other, not both. I'll be interested to see what the community says for this question as I still consider myself a beginner no matter what level the classes I'm taking on here.

Brian

[Razbo]

I think it depends on what pedals you are using and the order of effects comes into play as well. Distorting before or after adding another effect makes a difference on the sound.

Consider if you had no distortion pedal, the amp's gain would be the last thing added, and it would be perfectly valid to run a Flanger thru the distortion channel, right?

Sounds like you have some multiple effects on your amp. If there are none on that channel you needed, I would run thru the clean channel. Otherwise, I do know hooking "dual distortion" can create some awesome feedback. :) You could turn the gain on one or the other to 0 I guess.

[JeffS65]

I just wanted to add: There really aren't 'rules' on where in the signal path effects should go. Best practices maybe...but it depends on your end result and particularly your desired end result.

A few key effects for me back when were a Dunlop Wah and a Boss Turbo Overdrive. Wah on all the time and all the way down (for a bit of compression). Weird but it worked. If I put the Boss before the Wah, it sounded choked but if I put it after the Wah, I had big tone. None of it was a 'by the books' kind of deal. Just playing until I got the sound I wanted.

Mess with whatever combo you like until you get the sound you want, that's the key. Just don't do something to blow it up!!

[estetic]

The effects loop is for time based effects (delay, flanger, any modulation effect). Run your distortion/overdrive, wah, ect between the guitar and amp. You can't hurt anything messing with pedal order/placement.

[bottledgt]

ok...i have distoirtion and metal core. i just thought they were supossed to be run through the loop.