With the Special212 I'm running it into the back, power in I believe it is. So basically the tone knobs do nothing on the amp, just using the speakers. With the Laney I plug the Stomp into the back of my Laney head. Same thing, power in, so no tone knobs work on the Laney. Just volume and gain. I'll give the things you said a try tonight. Thanks! I mean otherwise I've been able to dial in some pretty awesome tones. Metal, rock, blues, cleans. It's just they have that tinny sound to them. I'm usually running an amp and cab seperate or amp and cab together to save a block. I'm completely new to this stuff. I'm not even sure what order to put stuff in on the Stomp. Usually it's just amp-drive pedal-delay or reverb. Is there an optimal order to put things?