5150 LBX a cleaner shade of clean

[RSHerhuth]

I love this amp big time!

With that being said I have seen countless people making a huge deal about not having a clean channel.
So that got me wondering...

I know on my Orange head if I plug the guitar into the return fx loop jack I get a nice clean tone...but unfortunately the volume control doesn't work which is an obvious problem. I just wondered if there would be some way to do something similar with the 5150 but with a volume control and make a 3-way switch that will switch between each of the now 3 channels?

Any ideas on this?

Thank you,
Ron

 

[Chris6870]

ABY switcher with a volume box? What about something like a Fender Bassman pedal set clean in the loop?

 

[RSHerhuth]

Interesting...could you elaborate?

 

[Chris6870]

Interesting...could you elaborate?

It would take some experimenting but you could run your guitar to an a/b box. That would let you send one feed to the front of your amp for your regular amps tone. The other feed would go to the effects return giving you just a plain clean tone. You can switch back and forth between the two with the a/b switcher.To control the volume you could try a volume box going into the loop or you can put an eq or a pedal like the Fender Bassman in between the a/b box and the loop return it would give you some tonal options on the clean side and possibly help with the volume leveling. May sound like crap or it may work out great.

 

[SQUAREHEAD]

Brokenfusion has some good ideas, they might just work… But in my experience, I have never made something do what it was not designed to do, or it never worked out very well, sounds like a makework project, which even if it works, it will give somewhat weak results…

 

[agbiggs]

That sounds like a cool idea - I might give it a try. And then the LBX might have a usable second channel!

 

[RSHerhuth]

I love it! That is fantastic! I am going to give that a try.

I suppose doing this...I can't use the fx loop? Or could a 2-female to single male jack to rout fx and the clean signal to the fx return?

 

[DADA]

This could work: http://www.bossus.com/products/ls-2/

From the 5150III Facebook group:
Question: So with Multi-Effect in 4CM skipping the pre-amp one can create a clean channel. So Multi-Effect with Send and Return is needed. Needing some ideaus which hardware can do this. Preferably a compact solution like the Line 6 M9 but then with Send and Return. Any ideaus?

Answer: Yeah man as long as your multi effects has a send and return on the unit it will work. I set mine as patch 1: just the amp with the crl switch as extra reverb. Patch 2 is bypassed preamp with a clean fender amp model added. 3 is boosted gain and delay and 4 is solo vol and gain boost with delay and switchable wah.

 

[Chris6870]

This could work: http://www.bossus.com/products/ls-2/

From the 5150III Facebook group:
Question: So with Multi-Effect in 4CM skipping the pre-amp one can create a clean channel. So Multi-Effect with Send and Return is needed. Needing some ideaus which hardware can do this. Preferably a compact solution like the Line 6 M9 but then with Send and Return. Any ideaus?

Answer: Yeah man as long as your multi effects has a send and return on the unit it will work. I set mine as patch 1: just the amp with the crl switch as extra reverb. Patch 2 is bypassed preamp with a clean fender amp model added. 3 is boosted gain and delay and 4 is solo vol and gain boost with delay and switchable wah.

Actually any multi fx unit that can run 4CM will give you a clean channel if you have an fx loop. The above post mentions the m9, but that doesnt do 4CM. Digitech RP1000 is probably the least expensive that does.
I did that with a Digitech RP1000 on my Splawn, It has a clean channel but it's kind of plain sounding. This way gives you your amps tone on the dirty channel with effects only coming from the RP as needed and then when you switch to a clean patch you are using the clean amp models from the fx unit which is routed into the fx return,bypassing your amps dirty preamp. I used the Fender clean amp models with effects as needed. Worked great but it's a more expensive way to meet your needs. If you need an efffects unit anyway it may be worth looking into.

 

[RSHerhuth]

Fantastic contributions!

I really like the LS-2 with the Fender Bassman Pedal...that should give me a nice clean channel with its own fx loop, and the blue/red channel with its own fx loop.

That is exactly what I think I'm looking for.

As far as being a hack...don't tell that to Eddie...he built a career on hacking things together that weren't "supposed to go together"