LIKELY ISSUES WITH MODELLING AMP AND LOOPER PEDAL

[Gstring]

I am about to buy a Lekato looper pedal as these look a lot of fun and are currently well priced new on Ebay for areasonable £35 shipped. Plus the in built tuner has received good reviews re accuracy.

My main amplifier is a Vox Valvetronic VT50 . I use the built in Chorus,Delay and Reverb effects and have a single Behinger Tube overdrive pedal (tubescreamer copy).

As I understand it when using the looper I should only use clean settings on the amp when using the looper and just use the O/D Pedal. This is due to the need for the looper to come after all the effects. Am I getting this right.

Probably will not affect my playing that much as I will still primarily use backing tracks.

And if I love the looper I will probably just buy another couple of Behringer pedals (chorus and reverb?). They are pretty cheap.

[Mincer]

Get an amp with an effects loop, and put the looper in the loop. Or get effects from pedals instead.

[Gstring]

Don't plan on doing any amp shopping any time soon. Will play wih the looper for a while before deciding anything..

Seems there is an allegedly "simple" mod you can do to a VT 50 Vavetronic to add a loop. This appears to involve adding a capacitor, a resistor and a ferrite bead to the head phone circuit.. n

[Mincer]

Well, that's one way if you can do the surgery. Another way would require a small mixer with an aux send. Either use the direct out of the amp (if it has one) to go to a mixer's channel, and put the looper in the aux send. You can then use headphones or go out to a powered speaker.