PeachyDragon
I've been playing around my guitar tones and I encountered an issue. I have a little 15 watt vox rs amp and a 1981 vox AC30 as well as a vox multi-effects.
I like the distortion on the small vox so much that I tried going through it and then in to pedal. This works but makes clean playing impossible, so the chain was guitar, vox rs, multiFX, ac30.
I'm connecting the RS amp's input and coming back through the phones output into the pedal. I then tried putting the little amp in the effects loop which gave a whistling noise that isn't feedback at any volume that isn't super soft. I then figured if the amp doesn't work in the effects loop but works in line before the pedal I can use my boss line selector and put it in the loop of the line selector. Nope, same issue.
Are there any tech geniuses out there who can advise me? Maybe a different impedance cable is required? I have no idea, you guys tell me.
AlanRatcliffe
No can do. Your headphone output is way too powerful to plug into another instrument level device - in fact you are lucky you haven't done any damage yet. Even line level is far to powerful for a pedal designed for a guitar. Stick your Effects in front of the AC30, turn of the speaker sims and experiment with the overdrives and distortions until you find one that works for you.
PeachyDragon
Wow, you also don't sleep, do you? I'm pretty sure that when I have that amp inline there is no whistling noise, so I'm not sure if the output is the only problem. Will test again.
