SFW
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For the past several weeks, I’ve been trying to move back into just playing a few pedals through my amp’s loop. Mainly some delay and reverb. While I have used these same pedals in the past with this amp, I have really been fighting to get the tones I want. This morning, I finally broke down and hooked the rack back up. And boom! There were the tones that I was missing. Yes, the TC rack unit does color your tone. But I have found that I like the way it colors my tone. It seems to warm up the amp just a tad and make the overall tone more pleasant to my ears. The delays sit right where I wanted them. I got my detune crutch back...lol! Love that effect when used subtly. Just widens things up nicely. So I’m done with pretending that I can “just get away with some pedals.” Back to being the rack whore that I am. Lol.
I've been using a guitar rack since '88, been through eight or so racks since and have three currently, one of which I'm refining now. I have a ton of pedals and some amazing amps that don't need more than a cable and electricity (well, suppose a guitar might help... LOL), but I will always come back to my racks.
" and have tried (and successfully to much an extent) to rely solely on my amps for tone. But where it's mandatory for me is recording and sometimes jamming/gigging. Recording is usually quieter so the room isn't captured, natural echo and space/reverb, etc. So - there it is - reverb and delay is critical for creating "dimensionality" in my recorded tone, and then wahs, boost, pitch/mods, etc are either one-shot-deals or used throughout. I was growing increasingly frustrated with floor space real estate and access and cleanliness. I decided to rackmount all my stomps except for in-the-loop stuff, and will decide between analog switching versus MIDI as it gets used and I grow more familiar with it. Right now I can hand access the effects as needed - and as I don't use them often, this is fine. In a live setting this is impossible. So this is where the analog-switch/MIDI argument will take shape - when I start using my kit for live situations. Right now, my stomps are getting housed on racks, only my necessary foot-ables are by my feet (wah, 1 boost), everything else preset and in the loop, or pick and choose off the rack.
