Speeddemon
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Hi kevin, interesting observation for sure! I'll need to try that with some other Boss pedals I have.Kevin11":qs4l4bsg said:Speeddemon":qs4l4bsg said:If the EVH's loop was to blame, it should also not play nice with other pedals, yet it does. I've posted about this on TGP as well, and a few guys seem to be hearing what I'm hearing.
Not to stray off topic too much here, but I couldn't run ANY of my Boss pedals in the loops of any of my EVH 5153 heads. I noticed you said you had a PS-6 in your mix. For me at least, it was definitely a level issue. Volume drop, dark tone, neutering, whatever folks wanna call it. The EVH loop (at least on the 5153 heads I used to have) does not like Boss pedals. I had other buffered pedals that seemed to work fine, and as far as I can tell, I only had the issue with Boss stuff for some reason.
My testing with the MXR M234 was in the loop of the EVH both as first pedal, with then other TB or buffered pedals after it, as well as just by itself, and also just by itself, but in its own TB Loop box's loop.
From what I recall, the vintage Boss CE-2 (gots me two of those... one long dash MIJ and one silver-screw MIJ) didn't exhibit that issue really much.
@napalmdeath
Since the EVH is quite bright and it has a footswitchable fx-loop, you can easily spot the tonal difference, at least in my case. If you place the M234 in an amp with a non-footswitchable fx-loop, you'll have a hard time zooming in on the difference, unless you can put it in a TB Loop Box's loop.