How to use guitar pedals on synths

[Morandar]

I just bought one of those Behringer pedals (the Vintage Tube Overdrive), and I am wondering about how I could use it with my Ion.

I know for sure many of you use guitar pedals with their synths, so...how? This pedal has only an in and a out, how can I plug both channels in it (avoid losing my panning games)?

 

Note than my Ion also feeds a Korg Kaoss Pad II (mainly used for reverbdelay and sound twisting).

 

Thank you!

[Lancaster]

 

Originally posted by Morandar This pedal has only an in and a out, how can I plug both channels in it (avoid losing my panning games)?

 

 

You cant.

[mytee2.0]

buy another pedal.

[Morandar]

So the statement "designed for being used with keyboard" is just a funny joke

Ok, I think I'm gonna put the phones out jack in the stomp box, and the stomp out in the mic in of the Kaoss Pad. So I'll be able to switch from pedalon pedal from the kaoss pad with seamlessly. I hope

Thank you. Too bad, however.

[niacin]

No, it's not a joke. Traditionally synths and vintage keyboards were mono. You don't need stereo until you hit the effects, of which they had none. So either run the Ion mono into the pedal out into a panner/delay/whatever, or, if you insist running the panning before the pedal, yeh you need 2 pedals. Or a rack fx unit. There are a few pedals that can handle a stereo input but you can probably count them on one hand.

[niacin]

And in case you're unaware, most pedals are designed to run with the lower signal input of a guitar. Thus the "designed for being used with keyboard" statement indicating this pedal can handle a hot signal without distorting. Generally try before you buy with pedals for keyboards largely because of this problem. Of course if you buy a Moogerfooger you can assume it'll work just fine with keyboards. There are probably a few others.

[Morandar]

Just as I expected! Thank you, Niacin

 

However, my plan didn't work, so now I run a channel directly into my kaoss pad, and the other one in the pedal and then in the kaoss pad. This seems to work. Maybe I'll still purchase a second pedal (save me from cheap instruments GAS! )