Tone Report Weekly Issue 103 | Page 43

TR: I think the question on everyone’s mind is: what’s the deal with all those effects loops? JB: When I did my original product suggestion button on our website, I found that people were asking for all kinds of pedals with combinations of two effects— delay/reverb, overdrive/boost, and so on. So I thought about it and realized that what they really wanted was to be able to hit one switch and get both sounds together. So I decided that rather than build every combination of two effects you could think of, I decided to put an effects loop on the back so you could patch your favorite delay in with my distortion for a one-click system. After discussions on some forums where guys mentioned effects that would work better in front of the distortion than after, I came up with a switch that moves the loop before or after the distortion in my pedal. So you can patch a clean boost or EQ in front or you can patch a delay or reverb after. Whatever is in that loop can be left on and when you turn my pedal on, you hear both, or when you turn my pedal off, the added effect is bypassed too, so effects in the loop become dedicated to the pedal. ToneReport.com 43