question on new tube amp....

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

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

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.

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!!

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.

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