ColonelForbin Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Looking into adding some Keeley pedals into my signal chain; not for lack of options in the HD500, more for the idea of programming patches with sliding FX loop position. I've got a Neutrino on order; may be a while, looks like they are still in the middle of assembling them, but from listening to the audio samples, it's one funky little mu-tron style envelope filter! I am also interested in their "sweetwater exclusive" bootlegger drive pedal, the germanium version of the red dirt overdrive pedal, and the seafoam chorus, because it sounds friggin awesome, and just because, I might get a 4-knob comp; can't have enough of those! I am *really* wanting the not-yet-released keeley "compressor pro", which supposedly uses a totally different design, my guess deviating from the "ross clone" build of the two and four knob comps. And for that matter, I am curious about whatever happened to the Keeley "bassist compressor"; they debuted both of those at NAMM earlier this year, and no recent news since.. They actually brought several new pedals to NAMM, and they all look tasty.. They are going to do a "Stereo" version of the Seafoam chorus, which I would probably eventually upgrade to. https://robertkeeley.com/2014/01/keeley-reveals-2-more-new-effect-pedals/ So, obviously I will first need to get all of these, and try various ideas for where they should be plugged in! Trial and error, of course - but it helps to be somewhat informed before diving in. On that note, My question being, if you had all of these in hand, where would you think these should be best positioned in the signal chain? Since I am going VDI to the HD500, between the guitar and POD is not an option. I was thinking the drive and envelope filter in the HD500 fx loop, positioned near the front of the signal chain, before the amp model. Do drive pedals go before or after envelope filters typically? I was thinking the chorus and compressor in the DT25 FX loop, since that would place it "post". Was also curious about making use of their true-bypass "fx loop" pedal; thought that would be an interesting option for saving an FS switch on the HD500. Program the patch to leave the FX loop on all the time, and run it into the outboard FX loop box. I don't know how these will all play with each other, in the past I've run into some issues trying to do too many A>D>A>D conversions running things in and out of the POD; though I haven't tried since I added the JTV and the DT25. Here's the gadgets I'm talkin' about: Neutrino Bootlegger Seafoam 4-Knob comp True Bypass loop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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