EVH amp owners or previous own. Can someone explain loop?

[romanianreaper]

Maybe I'm not understanding correctly but have the EVH foot pedal hooked up to the amp. When I turn up the amp's reverb, the effects loop turns the reverb on and off. Wonderful. When I use the effects loop for my pedal board and hit the effects button on the EVH footswitch, nothing happens associated to my pedals. I thought it would shut off the loop entirely as far as effects running. Am I wrong?

 

[Racerxrated]

Maybe I'm not understanding correctly but have the EVH foot pedal hooked up to the amp. When I turn up the amp's reverb, the effects loop turns the reverb on and off. Wonderful. When I use the effects loop for my pedal board and hit the effects button on the EVH footswitch, nothing happens associated to my pedals. I thought it would shut off the loop entirely as far as effects running. Am I wrong?

No, it should turn the loop totally on or off? That's how it worked for me long ago when I had one.

 

[Chris6870]

You sure your using the right cable?

 

[romanianreaper]

You sure your using the right cable?

Yeah, I used the one that was wrapped with the Effects Loop box.

Any chance it is just for the built-in reverb? I guess that wouldn't make any sense though because then it would just have a button that says "Reverb". Hmmm, I guess I'll check a few cables.

 

[Spaceboy]

It definitely switches the loop. I played that amp for years with a delay in the loop and the footswitch as my only control for it. You got something weird going on there.

 

[gregmusi]

Maybe I'm not understanding correctly but have the EVH foot pedal hooked up to the amp. When I turn up the amp's reverb, the effects loop turns the reverb on and off. Wonderful. When I use the effects loop for my pedal board and hit the effects button on the EVH footswitch, nothing happens associated to my pedals. I thought it would shut off the loop entirely as far as effects running. Am I wrong?

Which EVH amp specifically? All of the EVH heads 50W/100W the footswitch will turn the loop on/off. If it is the combo (which I am guessing that is what you have since it has onboard reverb) then the footswitch will turn the reverb only on/off and not the loop

 

[Buckeyedog]

Just looked at the manual and the footswitch far right button is labeled "reverb". So it does look like that button only turns the reverb on/off.

 

[romanianreaper]

Just looked at the manual and the footswitch far right button is labeled "reverb". So it does look like that button only turns the reverb on/off.

Thanks man! Yeah, I think the guy gave me the footswitch for the head they were selling. LOL. Some poor bastard is going to get the head with a "Reverb" switch. LOL

 

[Spaceboy]

Ohh, it’s a combo. I had no idea the combo version even had reverb.

 

[romanianreaper]

Ohh, it’s a combo. I had no idea the combo version even had reverb.

Yes, and it is a great sounding one!! I have some Keeley reverb pedals, etc. and it sounds nice alongside those behemoths. The effects thing is not a huge deal I guess as I can tap dance but just would have been nice. Having the reverb switchable is cool though too.