Markbass LMII effects loop

[pete.young]

Does anyone have a detailed set of instructions for switching a Markbass LMII from parallel to series? I understand it involves moving 2 jumpers and its probably obvious, but better safe than sorry.

Would I be right in thinking that if I change it over to series and don't have anything in the loop I'll need to connect the send and return with a short jack-jack lead?

[xgsjx]

if you take the lid off, there's 2 jumpers. One near the back of the amp & one kind of middle right. One's for Pre/Post EQ & the other is for Parallel/Series FX loop. I'm sure they;re labelled inside.

[51m0n]

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[dave_bass5]

This should help. Its got both DI and FX loop.

[Monckyman]

I can`t see the benefit in de-normalising the loop, can anyone tell me?

[dave_bass5]

While ive never done it as i dont use effects i imagine its to get more control over the tone. At the default setting you get the clean tone and the effected tone coming out of the speaker. I would imagine some people wont want the clean tone in the mix so changing the jumper will remove that.
You would then get out what you put in.

Thats how i see it anyway.

[xgsjx]

I tried it a couple of years ago. Like Dave says, one allows you to have a blend of wet & dry & the other is 100% wet through the fx loop.

I've never used teh fx loop since & just run bass > pedal board > amp input.

[pete.young]

Thanks everyone for the great information and apologies for the slow reply, I've been a bit busy over the last couple of days.

Monckyman, the reason for wanting to do this is to emulate 51m0n's setup with head and compressor in the same rack case - it makes sense to compress all the signal all of the time. First I need to find a rack case (a minor detail!)

[Monckyman]

Ta for the info, I didn`t realise it was a half normalled connection.
I thought it was a fully normalised connection that completely interrupted the signal path when a jack was inserted in either socket like a patchbay.
Might explain why I`m not getting full benefit of my BDDI when I stick it in the loop.
I`ll go inline from now on.
Thanks
MM