D1m3b4g
Active Member
Hi Ladies and Gentlemen
I'm usually just an observer here but I have a problem here so I thought I'd give it a post to quiz you more experienced people when it comes to gear...
I have an ENGL Invader 100 head which has 2 FX Send / Return Loops on it.
I use a Z9 footswitch to change channel and this has the benefits of being able to select/store extra settings that toggle things like the noise gate and FX Loop from 1 to 2.
Firstly, I'm assuming light off is Loop 1 and light on Loop 2 as it only switches the light on and off, not to another colour.
So what I wanted to achieve was run a few pedials on my board in direct, things like a wah, tuner and noise suppressor. I have another 3 pedals on my board setup in a chain for delay/chorus/reverb that I want to layer over my solo tone only.
So the idea was set my main channel 3 over driven sound to use FX Loop 1, with nothing in it, and set channel 4 to be slightly louder and switch the FX Loop over to 2 to trigger the layered effects.
Now here is where the problems start, when changing between FX loops on the gain channels, the sound on the amp completely cuts. Dead. Nothing at all. Even if I change back to the channel I was on before, dead. If I change to channels 1 or 2 which are effectively clean / light distortion I get the sound back as normal. Change back again to channel 3 or 4, nothing.
The only thing that brings any noise back is physically putting the amp on standby.
So if I use channels 3 and 4 setup to use the same loop and do not change it... no problems. However this seems pointless to me as I don't want the layered effects over my normal tone, and I don't want to trigger 3 pedals on when ever I go to solo.
So what gives here? This seems like a major fault with the head as it kills any noise outright just by changing to a channel with a different FX loop spefified. Has anyone else run into this? The same goes from 2 to 1, or 1 to 2, I've used all the FX in the loop when getting normal sound and there is no issue, this is 100% the head cutting out completely.
Please advise! Many thanks in advance.
Paul
I'm usually just an observer here but I have a problem here so I thought I'd give it a post to quiz you more experienced people when it comes to gear...
I have an ENGL Invader 100 head which has 2 FX Send / Return Loops on it.
I use a Z9 footswitch to change channel and this has the benefits of being able to select/store extra settings that toggle things like the noise gate and FX Loop from 1 to 2.
Firstly, I'm assuming light off is Loop 1 and light on Loop 2 as it only switches the light on and off, not to another colour.
So what I wanted to achieve was run a few pedials on my board in direct, things like a wah, tuner and noise suppressor. I have another 3 pedals on my board setup in a chain for delay/chorus/reverb that I want to layer over my solo tone only.
So the idea was set my main channel 3 over driven sound to use FX Loop 1, with nothing in it, and set channel 4 to be slightly louder and switch the FX Loop over to 2 to trigger the layered effects.
Now here is where the problems start, when changing between FX loops on the gain channels, the sound on the amp completely cuts. Dead. Nothing at all. Even if I change back to the channel I was on before, dead. If I change to channels 1 or 2 which are effectively clean / light distortion I get the sound back as normal. Change back again to channel 3 or 4, nothing.
The only thing that brings any noise back is physically putting the amp on standby.
So if I use channels 3 and 4 setup to use the same loop and do not change it... no problems. However this seems pointless to me as I don't want the layered effects over my normal tone, and I don't want to trigger 3 pedals on when ever I go to solo.
So what gives here? This seems like a major fault with the head as it kills any noise outright just by changing to a channel with a different FX loop spefified. Has anyone else run into this? The same goes from 2 to 1, or 1 to 2, I've used all the FX in the loop when getting normal sound and there is no issue, this is 100% the head cutting out completely.
Please advise! Many thanks in advance.
Paul