FX loops pros and cons

Many modern amplifiers have effects loops principally to allow time delay effects to be applied after the amplifier's distortion producing circuitry. But effects loops are very rarely found on old vintage style amplifiers. This series of articles looks in depth at how effects loops came about, their limitations, how they can affect your tone and how you need to set up your gear to use them to their best.

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Tone & Technology

TONE - is a difficult thing to describe.  It comes in many forms and means so many different things to each person.  It can mean one thing to a player and another to the listener.   To the player tone is everything they experience as the process of playing and hearing forms a feedback loop, and a big part of that experience is the amplifier.

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