Effects Loop in Rectoverb

[TheRazMeister]

Hey guys...all of sudden my effects loop in the Rectoverb sounds distorted with certain effects plugged in. The clean channel has a ripped speaker sound with my Visual Sound H2O and Jeckyl & Hyde pedals. I;m running the loop at 90%(max) and noticed that the sound while not as bad, happened with my other delay pedal but NOT my Boss tuner. Is there a an effects loop tube?

 

[madryan]

Please clarify... You're not running a Jeckyl and Hyde in the loop are you?

I noticed that my OD pedals tend to clip really weird if I hid them with too much signal from my Guitar. I recently re-wired my Les Paul and messed with the bridge pickup height and the resulting signal increase was enough to make my pedals start sounding weird. I lowered the bridge pup a bunch and not only does it sound better, but it's not doing that anymore.

There is a tube that buffers the effects loop on most tube amps. Look up your manual and it'll tell you.

 

[Rocky]

if you have that drive pedal in the loop GET IT OUT OF THERE.

 

[TheRazMeister]

if you have that drive pedal in the loop GET IT OUT OF THERE.

Rocky, I tried each pedal individually and even without the J & H the delay pedal sounded like it was distorting the clean signal like a blown speaker. The overdrive does the same thing even without the pedal engaged. It's just weird that the only pedal that doesn't really clip the signal is my TU2 tuner..

 

[clutch71]

Check all cable leads and swap out the tube responsible for the loop. You should be fine.

 

[TheRazMeister]

Check all cable leads and swap out the tube responsible for the loop. You should be fine.

I'll give that a shot...looks like V4 is the tube that controls the loop.

 

[TheRazMeister]

Hey guys...check this out, as per Marcus at Mesa...if you push the channel master and NOT the amp output you get too much signal. I put the Output at 12:00 and pulled back the individual masters and all is well... pretty freaky but it worked.

 

[JF Omalycat]

I think the amp sounds better like that, anyway. More "alive", even at lower volumes. Just my opinion, of course.