Hot Tub Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 What would be the correct sequence to connect the following components? This is my current signal path but I'm not convinced it's the best way to do it: 1. Instrument 2. Multi-effects unit (input, stereo output, phones output) 3. DI box 4. Mixer (connected to drum machine and MP3 player) 5. Tuner 6. Combo (effects loop, tuner out, no headphone socket) ...bearing in mind that I mostly play through headphones using the headphone socket on the mixer, and only occasionally use the combo. Many thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EBS_freak Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 Tuner should be 1st for starters... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike257 Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 [quote name='Hot Tub' post='422939' date='Mar 2 2009, 10:08 AM']1. Instrument 2. Multi-effects unit (input, stereo output, phones output) 3. DI box 4. Mixer (connected to drum machine and MP3 player) 5. Tuner 6. Combo (effects loop, tuner out, no headphone socket)[/quote] I would go: Instrument Tuner Multi FX And then it depends on a bunch of other stuff... - Does your Multi FX have a line out? You could skip the DI altogether and go straight to your mixer. - Does your combo have a line-in (for CD player etc)? Or is your effects loop line level? If so, I'd run the mixer into there, rather than the instrument level input on your combo. IF that's a big fat no, I guess you would go: Bass Tuner FX DI Mixer Combo Although other people might have a different take on it! Hope it helps anyway. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 [quote name='Hot Tub' post='422939' date='Mar 2 2009, 10:08 AM']What would be the correct sequence to connect the following components? This is my current signal path but I'm not convinced it's the best way to do it: 1. Instrument 2. Multi-effects unit (input, stereo output, phones output) 3. DI box 4. Mixer (connected to drum machine and MP3 player) 5. Tuner 6. Combo (effects loop, tuner out, no headphone socket)[/quote] You've got 1 and 6 in the right places, keep them where they are. Another vote from me for putting the tuner first, er, second - before the multiFX anyway. And after the instrument. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Tub Posted March 2, 2009 Author Share Posted March 2, 2009 [quote name='tauzero' post='423169' date='Mar 2 2009, 01:24 PM']You've got 1 and 6 in the right places...[/quote] LMAO! Yeah, they're the two I was fairly confident on! So, at the moment we're looking at: Bass -> Tuner -> FX -> DI -> Mixer -> Combo Mike257: No line out on the FX, just phones and left(mono)/right. There's no line in on the combo - it's a MarkBass CMD103H and actually fairly limited in terms of connections. Dunno if the effects loop is line level, but I could give it a shot so long as nothing's likely to detonate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike257 Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 [quote name='Hot Tub' post='423312' date='Mar 2 2009, 03:30 PM']Mike257: No line out on the FX, just phones and left(mono)/right. There's no line in on the combo - it's a MarkBass CMD103H and actually fairly limited in terms of connections. Dunno if the effects loop is line level, but I could give it a shot so long as nothing's likely to detonate. [/quote] Cool, well I'd stick with the Bass/Tuner/FX/DI/Mixer way of doing it then. I don't know if MarkBass make their loops line level, it'll probably be in the manual, or no doubt somebody wiser than I in the ways of yellow speakers can clear it up for us. Scratch that, I've just looked at the manual on their website. It looks like the effects return runs at the same line level as the XLR input on your amp. If you're running a line-level signal out of your mixer, I'd maybe plug in to one of those. Plugging into the FX return will bypass all the tone controls of the combo, but I'm assuming that you're getting your sound from the FX pedal anyway, as your putting a mix of bass/MP3/drum machine into the amp, yeah? I mean, so long as you stay away from the speaker outputs, you shouldn't blow anything up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EBS_freak Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 (edited) [quote name='mike257' post='423410' date='Mar 2 2009, 04:55 PM']Plugging into the FX return will bypass all the tone controls of the combo, but I'm assuming that you're getting your sound from the FX pedal anyway, as your putting a mix of bass/MP3/drum machine into the amp, yeah?[/quote] Umm... not sure. Just been having this very conversation with birdy and it would appear that the eq section is post fx loop on his F1... Can't confirm this though - easy enough for somebody to try with a Mark Bass amp though I guess. Edited March 2, 2009 by EBS_freak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faithless Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 Oh gosh... Shouldn't this be in effects thread? Sorry, it's just me again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EBS_freak Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 [quote name='Faithless' post='423432' date='Mar 2 2009, 05:20 PM']Oh gosh... Shouldn't this be in effects thread? Sorry, it's just me again.[/quote] Why? 5 of the items out of 6 aren't fx... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Tub Posted March 3, 2009 Author Share Posted March 3, 2009 Coolio! Thanks for all the advice everyone.... I'm off to re-do some plumbing.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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