Tweaker as a pedal platform?

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Thought about getting a Tweaker for a pedal platform and to mess around with, the 40 watt that is. Good idea? Bad idea? Or just get something different?

Hope to have about $700 in a few weeks for something. If money left over, I'm getting some pedals. Looking for a head only though. No combos.
 
I have a Twkr 40 and I think it is great by itself without pedals. I have only used a few different effects pedals with mine, a Wah, an OCD, and a POD multi-effects unit. All effects work well either up front, or in the loop, and as typical with most loops, distortion effects don't work well in the loop and work better up front. However, turning up the amp gain with any of the effects that I've tried in the loop, sounds pretty bad, while the clean setup and effects in the loop sounds great. With my POD in the loop, I can't use any of it's effects with the amp gain turned up without having a bad sound. One of my favorite effects on the POD is the "Auto Wah", and it sounds killer in the loop when playing clean, and the sound becomes very thin and nasally when the gain is cranked. Then again, I've been using it almost exclusively without any effects, and it does have great tone all by itself, which is why I bought it in the first place. :rock:
 
I'd ask Bruce about the loop in the Egnater forum. It may be line level and your effects may be instrument level. There have been mods in the past on other production Egnater amps to make the loop functional for your purposes.
 
I might do that sometime. The 40 has a loop level switch to select line or instrument, and when using much gain, the line setting sounds bad with most effects used, and the instrument setting sounds worse. Thing is, the effects and settings that should sound good in the loop, actually do sound great through a clean channel, no noise or any problem. It is the same no matter which channel I use for gain also. I don't really use effects in the loop with higher gain settings anyway, so no big deal for me. I really attribute it to distortion not working well in the loop and this could be normal, at least for this combination of effects, tubes and amp settings.
 
shimmilou":2uod5d5y said:
I might do that sometime. The 40 has a loop level switch to select line or instrument, and when using much gain, the line setting sounds bad with most effects used, and the instrument setting sounds worse. Thing is, the effects and settings that should sound good in the loop, actually do sound great through a clean channel, no noise or any problem. It is the same no matter which channel I use for gain also. I don't really use effects in the loop with higher gain settings anyway, so no big deal for me. I really attribute it to distortion not working well in the loop and this could be normal, at least for this combination of effects, tubes and amp settings.
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Again, post it up on the Egnater forum. I have a hard time believing Bruce would let the amp design go out with a loop that was garbage at settings other than clean. You could have a bad preamp tube in the Loop position too, which is something to consider if you haven't already. Either way, talk to Bruce. The loop design on my MOD50 was perfect and the Renegade works great as well. He's certainly not reinventing the wheel with every model, so I'm sure there's a reasonable solution for you.
 
I have a Tweaker 15 and think it's a GREAT platform for pedals. Dunno about that whole gain issue above. I have had none of those issues. Amp gets great clean and dirty tones and all of my effects have always sounded great with both. I say go for it.
 
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