libertarian
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Well, I was, and Liberterian obviously was, so that's at least two of us!
I used Distortion, Chorus, Echo, Reverb, Flanging and WAH for years infront of my old 2203!
And was I in tonal heaven? NO! because most of those effects sound better in the loop (Wah excepted, and I no longer need a distortion or OD Pedal...). My G-major rack effects sound far clearer, fuller and better. Want a long delay? easy - store a preset and recall it, along with JVM amp channel using a MIDI controller. Want a shorter delay? Tape Echo? Chorus? Flanging - same!
My analogue pedals sounded flat and mushy infront of an over-driven marshall, with no options!
Quite honestly I am baffled by the popularity of analoge effects infront of single channel amps in this day and age - but, I suppose evryone makes their own choices!.....
And that's exactly the point I was trying to make. I used to run a very similar setup back in the 80s: JCM800 2204 (an old one so no loop), distortion pedal, OD pedal, chorus, digital delay (which was a great step forward over the old analog ones that are now so hip again). And yes, this had to go in front of the amp and it sucked.
And somebody before mentioned that now all they do is throw it all in the loop and how easy that is. Only there are still effects you do not want in a loop. And sometimes you want a parallel loop and sometimes things in series. So it ends up being a nightmare depending on what you do.