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  • January 22, 2009 at 3:10 pm #77602
    oolliivviieerr
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    My modulation pedals ( Tremolo, echo, chorus) and my distortion pedals (bad monkey, germanium OD) have very different output levels. Do you think loops with a LS-2 or red onion pedal would be a good way to solve this problem?
    Which product would you recommend? (Boss LS-2 or onion, ans Which options if the red onion)?

    Thanks

    January 22, 2009 at 3:18 pm #91408
    Kevin Demuth
    Member

    i’m not sure i understand what you want…

    don’t your dirt pedals have volume controls?

    January 22, 2009 at 3:23 pm #91409
    oolliivviieerr
    Member

    No Germanium OD don’t have volume control?

    January 22, 2009 at 3:30 pm #91410
    Kevin Demuth
    Member

    of course. you’re right…

    on my Germanium OD, the output level is controlled by the interaction between the three controls… if you need the gain up high, can you turn the volts down?
    i find that i don’t need the gain up too high for the sounds i want.

    otherwise, to answer your initial question, a Red Onion TB loop with level control would work as a master volume for the Germ OD (or whatever else you choose to put in the loop).

    an LS-2 could work equally well and will give you many more routing options which may or may not prove useful.

    January 22, 2009 at 3:51 pm #91411
    oolliivviieerr
    Member

    Thanks! Is one of them (LS-2 or Red Onion ) more respectful with the guitar’s tone?

    January 22, 2009 at 4:02 pm #91412
    Kevin Demuth
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    Thanks! Is one of them (LS-2 or Red Onion ) more respectful with the guitar’s tone?

    i’ve got a couple of Red Onion TB loops which have no effect on my tone.
    i’ve heard some people complain of the LS-2 altering tone, but it’s been several years since i’ve used one – i don’t remember it as a tone sucker myself though.

    January 22, 2009 at 7:25 pm #91429
    julian
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    LS-2 isn’t true bypass if that matters to you

    January 22, 2009 at 8:58 pm #91439
    oolliivviieerr
    Member

    Can you hear the difference?

    January 22, 2009 at 10:09 pm #91442
    julian
    Moderator

    I don’t know, I’ve never used one. I probably couldn’t, but some people would claim they could.

    January 22, 2009 at 11:14 pm #91450
    Costch
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    The best way to solve this problem would be to keep your tone pure and not use any effects. I would do the same, but I just can’t part with my wah and fuzz quite yet. I’ve kicked the modulation and delay addiction, so that’s a plus.

    January 22, 2009 at 11:46 pm #91453
    julian
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    The best way to solve this problem would be to keep your tone pure and not use any effects. I would do the same, but I just can’t part with my wah and fuzz quite yet. I’ve kicked the modulation and delay addiction, so that’s a plus.

    I should ban you for proposing something so preposterous. STOP USING PEDALS? THAT’S CRAZY TALK!

    January 23, 2009 at 1:42 am #91461
    BlueSteel
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    The best way to solve this problem would be to keep your tone pure and not use any effects. I would do the same, but I just can’t part with my wah and fuzz quite yet. I’ve kicked the modulation and delay addiction, so that’s a plus.

    I could never get rid of my pedals.

    January 23, 2009 at 5:03 am #91468
    Costch
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    Quote:
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    The best way to solve this problem would be to keep your tone pure and not use any effects. I would do the same, but I just can’t part with my wah and fuzz quite yet. I’ve kicked the modulation and delay addiction, so that’s a plus.

    I could never get rid of my pedals.

    I could, possibly. I have the shiftiest mind in the world, and it tells me to change my stuff around all of the time, so I don’t even know what to do anymore. As of now, I am only using three (crybaby, big muff, small clone) but it keeps changing.

    January 23, 2009 at 11:48 am #91480
    BlueSteel
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    The best way to solve this problem would be to keep your tone pure and not use any effects. I would do the same, but I just can’t part with my wah and fuzz quite yet. I’ve kicked the modulation and delay addiction, so that’s a plus.

    I could never get rid of my pedals.

    I could, possibly. I have the shiftiest mind in the world, and it tells me to change my stuff around all of the time, so I don’t even know what to do anymore. As of now, I am only using three (crybaby, big muff, small clone) but it keeps changing.

    Those are three amazing pedals. :)

    January 23, 2009 at 12:19 pm #91478
    electro-melx
    Moderator

    IMO the electric guitar is a totaly different instrument with a ‘pure’ signal…..it isn’t really much more than an amplified acoustic…..people like Hendrix and Townsend wouldn’t have did what they did without effects and nor would the thousands of bands that followed….that’s what makes the electric guitar special.

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