Preamp pedal in to effects return

[Baloney Balderdash]

Also, the Effects Return on most amps, and certainly is in your case, is essentially exactly the same as a poweramp input, and hooking a preamp up to a poweramp is basically exactly how regular amps, including yours, work, so you are doing exactly the right thing, as it seems like you prefer your tube preamp pedal, rather than your tube preamp pedal into your amp's tube preamp section.

 

Also like this whether you turn up your preamp pedals master volume or the amp's master volume will do the exact same thing, letting more signal into the poweramp section, hence raising the volume, it doesn't matter which you use, as long as you don't let more power into your poweramp than it can handle, which though won't damage your amp either, just likely not sound good, which though is simply fixed by turning down a bit till it sounds good again.

 

Edited February 25, 2023 by Baloney Balderdash

[Reggaebass]

I dug out my old HH V-S bass amp recently and wondered if I can put my Ampeg preamp pedal through any of these inputs or do I just use the front jack input 

[Baloney Balderdash]

3 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

I dug out my old HH V-S bass amp recently and wondered if I can put my Ampeg preamp pedal through any of these inputs or do I just use the front jack input 

Only one of those is actually an input, that'll be the "Echo Return" socket.

 

The remaining 3 are all output sockets.

 

And only one way to know for sure: Try it out!

 

You are not going to blow up the amp.

 

 

Edited February 25, 2023 by Baloney Balderdash

[Reggaebass]

17 minutes ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

Only one of those is actually an input, that'll be the "Echo Return" socket.

 

The remaining 3 are all output sockets.

 

And only one way to know for sure: Try it out!

 

You are not going to blow up the amp.

 

 

Thanks Baloney, it’s not an amp I use really but thought it would be interesting to try the Ampeg through it , I’ll report back 😁

[BassmanPaul]

The Echo send and return are in essence the same as an effects send and return.

[Downunderwonder]

1 hour ago, BassmanPaul said:

The Echo send and return are in essence the same as an effects send and return.

Weird labeling but dollars to donuts that is what it is.

 

Whatever you do, don't plug the Ampeg into any of the other jacks. That could pop something and it certainly won't sound any good.

[Reggaebass]

18 minutes ago, Downunderwonder said:

Weird labeling but dollars to donuts that is what it is.

 

Whatever you do, don't plug the Ampeg into any of the other jacks. That could pop something and it certainly won't sound any good.

Thanks for that 👍

[geddeeee]

Bear in mind that if you use a preamp into the FX return on the Bass Terror Mk2, the amp will be full volume as all controls are bypassed.

All volume control is via the preamp. Make sure the volume is low on the preamp before switching the amp on, otherwise you will blow your eardrums out!!! LOL...

[SteveXFR]

5 hours ago, geddeeee said:

Bear in mind that if you use a preamp into the FX return on the Bass Terror Mk2, the amp will be full volume as all controls are bypassed.

All volume control is via the preamp. Make sure the volume is low on the preamp before switching the amp on, otherwise you will blow your eardrums out!!! LOL...

 

I've been using this setup for a few weeks now. The master volume still works, it's bypassing the eq and gain but not master volume.

[Bigwan]

2 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

I've been using this setup for a few weeks now. The master volume still works, it's bypassing the eq and gain but not master volume.

He talking about the mk2