UPDATE:

Now that I’ve experimented with the EH Signal Pad in various locations in my signal chain, I have concluded that it really falls short in the tone department. Basically it sucks the life out of your top end no matter where you put it. Even used as the very last thing in the chain (where I usually put a volume pedal), it sucks the life out of the signal.

Unless I can modify this thing to not do that, I can’t really use it. A really great idea, but poorly implemented.

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I got a signal pad last week. I wanted to check out the “2-channel” theory by putting it in front of my tube overdrive (Radial Hot British). It works well with some things to keep in mind.

When the pad is active, you lose a little tone (its not really colorless), and you lose some tone sculpting capability via the volume knobs on your guitar. I recommend rolling guitar volumes back to about 1/2 (5). This gives you a little room to adjust the gain (not much).

When the pad is not active, its virtually transparent.

I’ll be trying the Signal Pad out at rehearsal this weekend. I’ll let yooz know what happens.

My current signal chain …

* Boss TU-2 (Chromatic Strobe Mode)
* BBE Boosta Grande (10db)
* EH Signal Pad (set at about 11:00)
* Radial ToneBone Hot British Tube Overdrive w/12AX7 (I set this gain really high)
* EH Small Clone (Classic)
* DigiTech DigiDelay (set for tape echo)
* EH Holy Grail Classic (Room Reverb at around 2:00, sometimes use FLERB)
* Morley Little Alligator Volume

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