Thanks for buying a Silencer! I’m not sure I completely understand your question yet but it kind of sounds like you have pedals connected to your amp’s effects loop and you have pedals, like the MEL9, connected between your instrument and amp. Is that about right?

I want to mention at the start that the Silencer’s effects loop has nothing to do with your amp’s effects loop. Normally you would not connect the Silencer’s SEND and RETURN to the SEND and RETURN on your amp. More on this in a second.

A basic way to set up the Silencer is you would figure out which pedals are noisy and then put those pedals into the Silencer’s effects loop. You could, if it makes things easier, put all your pedals in the Silencer’s FX Loop. You would then connect a clean version of your instrument to the Silencer’s INPUT jack, the signal present at the Silencer’s INPUT jack is used by the Silencer to figure when to open and close the gate. You would then connect the Silencer’s OUTPUT jack to your amplifier’s input or a pedal that is not noisy.

If you want to use the Silencer to gate pedals that in your amp’s FX Loop, you can do that. You would connect the amp’s FX Send to the Silencer’s INPUT jack then the amp’s FX Return to the Silencer’s OUTPUT jack. The pedals that were in your amp’s FX Loop should now be connected to the Silencer’s SEND and RETURN jacks.

Hope this helps.

Here is a picture a pedals.

http://c2n.me/3Kk9YfK

So what pedals in silencer loop? any order?

Then all the rest ending into input of silencer?

Tom