Glenn's Blog: July 2009

Monday, July 6, 2009

Thank You

Just a note to thank you for buying my CD's and iTunes downloads. I really appreciate it!! I am now offering single song MP3 downloads because I know lots of people don't have an iTunes account. Including Me!! LOL... So, if you find my tones and videos useful please consider checking out my original music as well and maybe purchasing a song or two to help keep things going.

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Thank you for your support . . .

4 Cable Method

With the 4CM method, you are connecting things as you would with a normal effects chain. Normal chain would be something like:

Guitar > Wah/volume/distortion stomp boxes, etc > preamp > choruses, delays, reverb, etc > power amp > speaker/cabinets

If you use a 2 cable method like this:

Guitar > Boss or Line6 device > Amp input

Then any delay (for example) is then going to get distorted by the preamp in your amp. Maybe that's the sound you want, but generally you want delayed distortion, not distorted delay.

So, the 4CM method is:

Cable 1: Guitar output > Boss or Line6 device Input
Cable 2: Boss or Line6 device effect loop send > amp input
Cable 3: Amp effect loop send > Boss or Line6 device effect loop return
Cable 4: Boss or Line6 device output > amp effect loop return

This gives you a proper signal path:

Guitar > Boss or Line6 device > amp preamp > Boss or Line6 device > amp power amp

The send receive in your Boss or Line6 device effects path should be AFTER your comp/distortion/amp sims and BEFORE your chorous/delay/reverb effects.

Note that you can still put external pedals in the right places - i.e. real wah pedal before the Boss or Line6 device input or a distortion stomp box before the amp input and other effects processors in the loop before/after the Boss or Line6 device.

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