Re: Do I need that EDP?

[cburke55@comcast.net (Christophe)]

Matthias,

Straight to the heart of the problem.  Thank you!

Regards from Boston,

Chris
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From: Matthias Grob <matilists@atarde.com.br>
> I have learned to be very carefull with analisis of problems that 
> involve "old school tube amp tone", because there seem to be some 
> para scientific influences...
> 
> but what you say splits in two separate issues:
> 
> 1)  Any loop before a "old school tube amp" must screw it up, 
> independent on what loop unit you use, because the guitar is not 
> going alone into it, the loops change its characteristics.
> as soon as you seriously distort, be it with tubes or any pedal, you 
> get the interferences between your actual guitar and the loop content 
> which usually sounds terrible.
> The mentioned solutions with insert and mic are not perfect either. 
> The closest seems to me would be to feed the loop unit from a speaker 
> simulator (not a power soak, since you do use the real speaker) at 
> the output of the tube amp and then go from the looper into some flat 
> monitor.
> I never tried it. Since 1974 I am perfectly happy with solid state :-)
> 
> 2)  the EDP is not quite as noise free as newer equipment is, which 
> appears more when you put a compressor after it. tubes do compress 
> somehow...