BH12neil Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 A confused newbie here looking for some help. Ok, this is my first excursion into the world of effects pedals and I need advice as to what leads go where. I have a Low Down Studio 110 amp with a main input socket and a preamp out socket at the rear. This is my understanding, please correct me if I'm wrong; one lead runs from the main input socket in my amp to the 'effects out' socket in the pedal, another separate lead runs from the 'input' socket of the pedal to my bass. Am I right so far? That leaves a a third socket on the pedal marked 'dry out', what is this and what is it for, should I be using it? My guess is that its for linking other pedals which at the moment I don't have but hopefully will have in the near future. This brings me to another question which is if in the future I was to invest in some additional pedals and a pedal board how would this work lead wise? Regards BH12neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle psychosis Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 [quote name='BH12neil' timestamp='1317768495' post='1394478'] one lead runs from the main input socket in my amp to the 'effects out' socket in the pedal, another separate lead runs from the 'input' socket of the pedal to my bass. Am I right so far? [/quote] Yes. [quote]That leaves a a third socket on the pedal marked 'dry out', what is this and what is it for, should I be using it? My guess is that its for linking other pedals which at the moment I don't have but hopefully will have in the near future.[/quote] "Dry out" is an uneffected signal. So if you wanted to run two amps and have a fuzz sound in one and a clean sound in the other you could connect "dry out" to the clean amp and "effect out" to the dirty amp. Not all pedals have a "dry out"---quite a lot just have one input and one output. [quote]This brings me to another question which is if in the future I was to invest in some additional pedals and a pedal board how would this work lead wise?[/quote] All you need are the cables to connect the pedals together in a chain. Like this: Bass to input of pedal 1 Output of pedal 1 to input of pedal 2 Output of pedal 2 to input of pedal 3 Output of pedal 3 to input on amp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BH12neil Posted October 5, 2011 Author Share Posted October 5, 2011 That's cleared that up then, thanks for your help its really appreciated. Regards, BH12neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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