Bob-Dubery
My problems with my Carl Martin chorus pedal are well reported on in this forum. The problem, as I understand it, is that because the pedal is true bypass the impedance on the output side of the pedal changes when I turn the effect on, and this would be OK if that output went into a guitar amplifier, but causes problems when I'm just plugged into a PA.
Now I don't get the same difficulty with my Line 6 MM4. This has no claims to being a true bypass pedal so I am guessing the impedance stays fairly constant.
Is there then a way to sequence these pedals so that the Line 6 pedal acts as a buffer and prevents whatever is on the output side from having to deal with impedance changes? Do I put the Line 6 pedal ahead of the Carl Martin or after it?
I know the ideal here is to have a pre-amp or DI box, but then I really get into a territory where I start having to have a board and that's more of a schlep than I want. I also know that sequencing of effects is non-trivial, but in this case I am unlikely to use the chorus and the MM4 at the same time.
AlanRatcliffe
In this case, I'd put the Line 6 after the chorus so that it always presents the same impedance to the amp/desk, which should prevent the volume drop.
