No, you read that right: Obviously one can boost an amp with a dirt/drive pedal in front of it, but has anyone run an amp's Send into a dirt/drive pedal, using the amp's preamp to boost the pedal, then feeding that back into the Return? Would this even be advisable? Guitar to amp, Send to drive/dirt pedal, pedal to Return. Obviously this would not be advisable with a high-gain amp like a TripleRec or 5150II, but say a JCM800 or even Super Reverb as a clean boost? Maybe a JC-120?
I did say it was a silly question, but I'm genuinely curious.
I've tried in years past to run rack units this way, but that's typically been Line level to Instrument level and the results were less than expected.
Then again I'm guessing it'd be the same thing with an amp, depending if the Send was Line or Instrument, and what the pedal input was set up for. But if the Send were switchable between the two formats?
I did say it was a silly question, but I'm genuinely curious.
I've tried in years past to run rack units this way, but that's typically been Line level to Instrument level and the results were less than expected.
Then again I'm guessing it'd be the same thing with an amp, depending if the Send was Line or Instrument, and what the pedal input was set up for. But if the Send were switchable between the two formats?
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