GreatRedDragon
Well-known member
Current situation: I have a Ceriatone 2203. It's one channel, and that one channel is fucking bananas. But more and more lately I'm playing more music that really calls for a clean channel, better than what I can do by stomping the SD-1 and rolling my volume knob.
My idea is to use something like a Boss LS-2 to create two loops: One that runs through my overdrive, into the amp and out the FX Send, and one that runs through a pre-amp pedal, with the output running into the FX Return of the amp. So I could set my 2203 for a really powerful dirty tone and have a Fender preamp pedal with some chorus on it on standby, or the inverse and run a MT-2 into the loop return for my dirty sound and dial in my amp for cleans. Or even have an EHX 9 series pedal in the loop to switch between keyboards and guitar.
The obvious problem is the Ceriatone effects loop and the tone suckage. My solution for that would be something like a Boss EH-2, just running next to the amp head boosting the signal and giving it back some sparkle.
But before I run out and drop a couple hundred bucks on some pedals for my master plan, does anyone see any problems I've missed?
My idea is to use something like a Boss LS-2 to create two loops: One that runs through my overdrive, into the amp and out the FX Send, and one that runs through a pre-amp pedal, with the output running into the FX Return of the amp. So I could set my 2203 for a really powerful dirty tone and have a Fender preamp pedal with some chorus on it on standby, or the inverse and run a MT-2 into the loop return for my dirty sound and dial in my amp for cleans. Or even have an EHX 9 series pedal in the loop to switch between keyboards and guitar.
The obvious problem is the Ceriatone effects loop and the tone suckage. My solution for that would be something like a Boss EH-2, just running next to the amp head boosting the signal and giving it back some sparkle.
But before I run out and drop a couple hundred bucks on some pedals for my master plan, does anyone see any problems I've missed?