cavemanpaul Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 Hi, wondered if anyone had any suggestions. So I'm using the HX effects for bass into a Darkglass Vintage Microtubes 500 amp. The amp has an intelligent footswitch for going between clean, vintage microtubes circuit, B3K circuit, and mute (4 buttons). When trying to use an effects loop on the HX effects through the loop send/return on the amp, it is bypassing the footswitch somehow, so I can't change between the onboard distortions or mute the amp. This doesn't happen with 2 cable method (no loop) and didn't happen using individual effects in the loop... any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_m Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 It sounds like you're trying to hook the VM500 up to the HX Effects via the 4CM but you don't have the connections correct. You wouldn't want to connect the two loops together. You'd want some of the HX's blocks before the VM500 and some in its loop. To do that, you'd make the follow connections (--> = a cable) Guitar--> HX Effects Input HX Effects FX Send --> VM500 input VM500 FX Send --> HX Effects FX Return HX Effects Output --> VM500 FX Return Any effects you have before the FX Loop block in the HX Effects will be in front of the VM500. Any you have after the FX Loop block will be in the VM500's loop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavemanpaul Posted December 18, 2019 Author Share Posted December 18, 2019 Hi Phil, thanks for replying. I'm not trying to control the on board distortion in the amp from the HX effects at all. It has it's own footswitch and footswitch in on the amp, which is where i'm trying to control it from. All effects on the HX are working fine, the effects loop works for the effects in the loop, but for some reason it stops the amp's own footswitch from being effective... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_m Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 3 minutes ago, cavemanpaul said: Hi Phil, thanks for replying. I'm not trying to control the on board distortion in the amp from the HX effects at all. It has it's own footswitch and footswitch in on the amp, which is where i'm trying to control it from. All effects on the HX are working fine, the effects loop works for the effects in the loop, but for some reason it stops the amp's own footswitch from being effective... I'm not sure where you got the idea that I'm saying you're trying to control the on-board distortion from the HX Effects... I'm saying it sounds you have things hooked up incorrectly. Most likely you're bypassing the preamp on the VM500 which is why the channel selection isn't having any effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rd2rk Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 I had a look at the manual/scematic. I think phil_m is correct, as there's no reason that the HXFX would do what you're describing. Are you using an FX Loop Block in your signal chain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavemanpaul Posted December 18, 2019 Author Share Posted December 18, 2019 Hi Phil, apologies, misunderstood. Cable wise, going from instrument into input 1, send 1 to front of amp, amp fx send into HX return, HX output 1 into amp fx return. RD2RK, thanks for reply. Yes, there is a loop block towards the end of the chain, before the modulation i wanted in the loop.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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