RE: help!!-- mysterious signal chain interactions

[goddard.duncan@mtvne.com]

Title: help!!-- mysterious signal chain interactions

 >> Here's my setup-- I run my bass 
into a multi-effects processor and a delay box, and then use a splitter to 
create two signal chains that each have their own looper and each feed a 
separate amp/ speaker combination.

And here's the kind of thing that 
happens:

> I make a loop on the EDP on chain 1. 
>
> I play along with the 
>   loop for awhile. 
>
> I switch to chain 2 and make a loop on the DL4. 
>   
>
> I go back to chain 1 to play live through that amp/ speaker (with the 
>   EDP loop still playing)

BUT . . .  when I start playing on chain 1 (with the loop still playing), this time my live playing volume is way way down from what it was before I added the chain 2 loop. <<

 

how are you doing the switching? a passive a-b box? 

we've noticed that the dl4 will do odd things to the "direct" level depending how the mix control is set and also if it has both inputs connected....

what parts of the signal path are in circuit when you play "live" through the system? presumably, your "live playing volume" is one or both of the looping paths with partial bypass by means of a mix control somewhere; I'd imagine that this is changing when you've created a loop on either box and have it mixed with the live instrument....

 

duncan.

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