can someone please explain to me why.........

[Horizontalste]

I get bags more volume out of my amp when I put my pedals in front of it?
If I just go bass to amp the limiter kicks in but using my pedals with the volume set to the same as off I can really crank it, in fact I can go flat out with it.

I'm not complaining at all, just wondering what happens to my signal that the amp likes?

Amp is a Genz contour, pedals are polytune, opto stomp, mxr od, bass is a Ray.

[HowieBass]

I would think that if you're compressing the signal you'll be evening out the volume and by boosting the lows you'll be consistently that bit louder?

[Mikey R]

your pedals might be rolling off the low end?

[LukeFRC]

pedals on or off?

[ahpook]

[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1399195161' post='2441862']
I would think that if you're compressing the signal you'll be evening out the volume and by boosting the lows you'll be consistently that bit louder?
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Plus the one.

The Optostomp I had cut some lows as well.

Assuming we're talking about you having the pedals activated when you say it sounds better !

Edited May 5, 2014 by ahpook

[Tdw]

Presumably some of the pedals reduce the dynamic range (compress) in some way, or reduce the low frequencies, if you want to increase the (percieved) volume then compression is the most effective way, at the expense of dynamic control.

[cattytown]

The compressor will compress increasing loudness by taming peaks.

[hamfist]

Yup, compression. Peaks are no higher (or even lower) but the perceived volume is significantly greater as the average volume is higher