LSS cleans with loop

[timmerel]

I like the LSS clean best with hard bypass on the loop. Sounds amazing. With overdrive I like it best with the loop engaged. Also amazing.

Does anyone with an LSS know if there is any trick to getting the LSS clean to sound as good with the loop engaged, or is it just that the extra tube in the circuit changes the tone a tiny bit by default?

Also, has anyone thought about getting a mod to change what is currently the reverb footswitch to be a hard bypass switch on the loop instead? That way live you could get the best of both worlds with your feet!

 

[user 1198]

I like the LSS clean best with hard bypass on the loop. Sounds amazing. With overdrive I like it best with the loop engaged. Also amazing.

Does anyone with an LSS know if there is any trick to getting the LSS clean to sound as good with the loop engaged, or is it just that the extra tube in the circuit changes the tone a tiny bit by default?

Also, has anyone thought about getting a mod to change what is currently the reverb footswitch to be a hard bypass switch on the loop instead? That way live you could get the best of both worlds with your feet!

I agree with you 100%. On my LSC the clean sounds so much better with the effects loop hard bypassed. It not that it sounds horrible with the loop engaged, but the amp seems to loose a little bit of punch. I'm wondering if the tone loss can be compensated for by putting an EQ in the loop and compensating for whatever frequency's may be being affected.

As for the reverb, there is a jack underneath (on the LSC, I'm not sure about the LSS) that you can connect a foot switch to for turning the reverb on and off. I have mine connected to a GCX audio switcher so that I can remotely turn the reverb on and off.

 

[timmerel]

I will try the eq approach and see if it helps. The change with the loop is a subtle one - it sounds to my ears like using the effects loop is the equivalent of turning a global presence control on the amp down a little. As though all frequencies lose a little of their brightness.

I think we are talking a little at cross purposes on the reverb footswitch point - I was thinking about a mod where that switch activated the hard bypass of the effects loop instead of the reverb on/off function it currently performs. That way live one could switch between the drive channel with the effects loop and the clean channel without it on the fly.