For the last 10+ years, Ive been playing a Line 6 Spider 3 1x12 combo which never had an effects loop. I finally decided to go all out and get my favorite Line 6 amp since I found one for a great deal and my spider3 is starting to crap out. If I try to run too much volume when im playing, the amp will shutoff for a second and turn back on with the settings all jacked up and ends up blowing my ear drums away .fortunately, it has an MP3 in under the guitar input, so when it started doing that, if i turned it off then back on and help tap to put it in tuner mode real quick, i could my music audio just fine untl the amp cooled down and i could play agin. So now that I have a second amp and im not pushing two seperate signals through the same speaker anymore, i have some questions that are now popping up.
apparently my Line 6 Spider Valve MKII has an effects loop that i didnt know about and the MKI didnt have one. i have an ISP Decimator original pedal that i rely on so that everytime i stop playing the amp doesnt scream in my face because the on board gates sucked, but this was at the sacrfice of my clean tone because it will cut off my guitar with as tight as I had to run my gate. For the longest time i just settled on stepping on and off the gate, but now that i have an effects board i can work with, its worth the time to invest on setting stuff up right. to spare me from having to try and hit a channel button with one foot and the gate with the other.
problem is, i know how to set the threshold to keep the amp from screaming, but I would like to know what a "typical" range should be. I would like to make sure that im relying more on my playing being clean then using a noise reduction pedal to clean my sloppy playing up. generally i run it at -35db (approximately 10-11 oclock) and it seems to dance the razors edge between feedback control and choking signal.
apparently my Line 6 Spider Valve MKII has an effects loop that i didnt know about and the MKI didnt have one. i have an ISP Decimator original pedal that i rely on so that everytime i stop playing the amp doesnt scream in my face because the on board gates sucked, but this was at the sacrfice of my clean tone because it will cut off my guitar with as tight as I had to run my gate. For the longest time i just settled on stepping on and off the gate, but now that i have an effects board i can work with, its worth the time to invest on setting stuff up right. to spare me from having to try and hit a channel button with one foot and the gate with the other.
problem is, i know how to set the threshold to keep the amp from screaming, but I would like to know what a "typical" range should be. I would like to make sure that im relying more on my playing being clean then using a noise reduction pedal to clean my sloppy playing up. generally i run it at -35db (approximately 10-11 oclock) and it seems to dance the razors edge between feedback control and choking signal.