Foot pedals vs. rackmount

[unconventional]

Is there any downfall to using foot pedals instead of rackmount effects?

I have a mesa recording rectifier preamp and a mesa 2:100

To me, it's simpler to just have some foot pedals instead of a rack mounted effects unit.

My logic is this. I have pedals now for the preamp and I don't really want to have another pedal for the effects unit. I can save money by using a floor pedal for delay, etc.

If this is a viable option, any repercussions to having them from

guitar > foot pedal > preamp rather than using the effects loop on the preamp? Or am I better off to use the loop on the rectifier preamp?

Thanks, Kevin

 

[6L6C]

This is not a perfect rule but, I like to place all time based effects after the preamp (or in the amps loop) time based effects being reverb, delay, flanger, phase, chorus and so on. And I like to place effects that affect a signals entire dynamic before the preamp mostly any type of overdrive pedal.
I’m not a pedal guy channel switching on the amp everything is done midi, also don’t stick to one type of say: chorus setting or delay setting so I have been rack mount since 1988. Will sometimes use a overdrive pedal out front but even then it is in a external loop controlled by midi.

 

[unconventional]

I wish I understood MIDI.

 

[6L6C]

I wish I understood MIDI.

Try some books! You don’t have to understand every aspect of midi to use it.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_i_0?ie=UTF8&rs=&keywords=midi&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Amidi%2Ci%3Astripbooks

Allot of these books are geared toward keyboard work. So go to your local Borders or Barns & Nobel were you can thumb through a few.