Members allth3s4me Posted March 16, 2008 Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 I'm aware of the utter noobeous nature of this question but-- what are the ways to connect rack units to the amp if it doesn't have effects loop in it?? Say, at the start I have my pedals- overdrive and blah blah on the line then a couple of racks and then it all goes into the amp. How do I do that? THere are like: Balanced inputs- left/right, balanced outputs left/right, Digital I/O (what's that?), MIDI- in/thru/out, Pedal- in.........?? I don't have the rack myself but I'm looking forward to invest in some, just wondering what equipment do I need to get it all working...... ? THanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members melx Posted March 16, 2008 Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 I'm aware of the utter noobeous nature of this question but-- what are the ways to connect rack units to the amp if it doesn't have effects loop in it?? Say, at the start I have my pedals- overdrive and blah blah on the line then a couple of racks and then it all goes into the amp. How do I do that? THere are like: Balanced inputs- left/right, balanced outputs left/right, Digital I/O (what's that?), MIDI- in/thru/out, Pedal- in.........?? I don't have the rack myself but I'm looking forward to invest in some, just wondering what equipment do I need to get it all working...... ? THanks Digital I/O I would presume to be 'digital In/Out' .... I'm no expert on rack stuff but as far as I know it isn't really designed to run in front of an amp like pedals are, I'm not saying you can't though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members IvIark Posted March 16, 2008 Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 If your amp doesn't have an effects loop then a rack isn't the best thing to get because rack effects are designed to run at line level (in the loop). So unless you upgrade your amp I'd probably stick to stompboxes for the time being. Balanced inputs means line level (+4dB balanced) as opposed to unbalanced instrument level devices like pedals (-10dB unbalanced) Left and right is obviously stereo inputs (you'd usually only use the left input if the rack effects were in a mono loop). Balanced outputs - as above Digital I/O - is digital inputs and outputs. If you have a string of devices with digital I/O you can connect them all together so there is no analog to digital (and vice versa) conversion. An example is if you had 3 effect processors and were connecting them up with their usual analog inputs and outputs, the signal ends up going through 3 analog to digital converters and 3 digital to analog converters. If you connect the 3 processors up using digital I/O, the signal only passes through 1 analog to digital converter (in the first processor) and one digital to analog processor (in the last processor). MIDI In / Out / Thru - are ports used to control patch switching, effect manipluation etc. So if you had a MIDI floor controller like the Behringer FCB1010 you would take that to the MIDI In on the processor and could then switch patches, increase reverb level, control delay tap tempo etc etc etc using it. The Thru is used to pass the MIDI signal sent by the FCB1010 to the next processor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members allth3s4me Posted March 16, 2008 Author Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 so stereo means if I have two combos, right?yeah, now when you enlighten me it seems very logical and rather simple. also, yeah, I'm going to buy a new amp but most of them come without FX loop so I thought I couldn't wire those racks up so I asked..and thanks mate, it's really helpful. I'm happy to see coherent, intelligent reply instead of that yank redneck blabbering which is very apparent on here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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