Amp fx loop switcher

[ikebrown]

Has anyone made an Amp fx loop switcher so i can put my delays in front of the amp or in the amps loop at will? i'm trying to make a pedalboard for different amps and electric and acoustic

[crane]

not much to design here. grap an enclosure, a manyPDT switch or a switch + relay and a bunch of input jacks.

[bzrkrage]

Just picked up a s/h 4x4 patch bay might be what you are looking for.

[petemoore]

  I can only imagine...long signal cables and lots of them, fed by many mechanical switches and connectors, that's a lot of places to ask signal to reliably get through with any given setting, and a fair amount of sorting debugging or marking system for making the correct connections.
   For these reasons...some simpler workarounds might be worth entertaining [ie one or the other...maybe something that gets close to the 'looped sound' built a'la carte'.
  Panner, A/B, stereo volume, volume and signal loops built here.
   It's almost worth thinking about greatly reducing the # of jacks and plugs and eliminating great signal cable lengths by replacing all that with some hardwiring instead...once the signal and effects are in or attached or inside the amp somehow, the looper jacks are already 'stationed' there, and can be soldered to, removed or used with plugs.
  I'd use electronic or photocell activated switchings because compact and reliable might be important than quick and easy.
   All that said, others have had better luck than I..succesfully building effects into/onto/even near amplifier chassis...I was doing it with tube amps and it always seemed like something...the magnetics or inductance [ground loop?=doubtful...] was permeating into the signal.