Best Combo amp for use as an effects return?

rnjscooter

rnjscooter

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Hey everyone. When I fly I run my Axe3 to my Matrix GT100OFX-1U into Marshall cabs or whatever the club I am playing at has, and it rocks.

In church I created an Ax8 rig for my electric players running it into the fx return an old line 6 flextone, and it worked. Not the bomb, but it worked. My electric players aren't pros, just volunteers so they were happy.

I sold the AX8 and the F3 arrived. I am doing the same thing, running into the fx return of the flextone, and I am kinda feeling like its time to go next level. A better combo amp is fine, but I am not opposed to frfr either, other than now I gotta add cab blocks into the mix.

Would love to hear some opinions. thx!
 
I haven’t tried it personally (yet!) but I have always been intrigued by the Roland JC 40. It is super clean, has a stereo effects loop, and supposedly takes pedals really well. I have read of some Helix users trying this approach with great success.
 
I have no idea what would be the best, but I'm running my FM3 into the return of an Egnater Tweaker 15 head to a matching 1x12 cab with a Celestion Alnico Blue and to my tastes, the tones are amazing. I've owned Fenders and Marshalls over the years, as well a beautiful custom Fuchs TDS 50, Carr Rambler, Aiken Tomcat and others ... and I've never been happier than I am with this simple, inexpensive, lightweight rig. Life is good!!
 
rnjscooter said:
Hey everyone. When I fly I run my Axe3 to my Matrix GT100OFX-1U into Marshall cabs or whatever the club I am playing at has, and it rocks.

In church I created an Ax8 rig for my electric players running it into the fx return an old line 6 flextone, and it worked. Not the bomb, but it worked. My electric players aren't pros, just volunteers so they were happy.

I sold the AX8 and the F3 arrived. I am doing the same thing, running into the fx return of the flextone, and I am kinda feeling like its time to go next level. A better combo amp is fine, but I am not opposed to frfr either, other than now I gotta add cab blocks into the mix.

Would love to hear some opinions. thx!
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I personally had better success running into the front of an amp with a bold clean tone as a base. Never found an amp that sounded good with the AX8 or Axe in the amp's fx loop.
 
I ran the FM3 into the FX return of a Fender Mustang GT100. Mono amp, but stereo fx loop (if you need that sort of thing) with dual XLR outs. Not a high dollar solution; but sounds great to me.
 
rnjscooter said:
Hey everyone. When I fly I run my Axe3 to my Matrix GT100OFX-1U into Marshall cabs or whatever the club I am playing at has, and it rocks.

In church I created an Ax8 rig for my electric players running it into the fx return an old line 6 flextone, and it worked. Not the bomb, but it worked. My electric players aren't pros, just volunteers so they were happy.

I sold the AX8 and the F3 arrived. I am doing the same thing, running into the fx return of the flextone, and I am kinda feeling like its time to go next level. A better combo amp is fine, but I am not opposed to frfr either, other than now I gotta add cab blocks into the mix.

Would love to hear some opinions. thx!
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My recollection is that at least some of the Flextones had the speaker modeling after the effects return unless some sort of secret handshake was instigated to turn it off. Also, I don't remember what speaker those things came loaded with...but I'm guessing not the Celestions you're used to in those Marshall cabs.
 
I just got a DSL40 in a trade yesterday, going to play with it this week to see what works and what doesn’t.
 
I'm using an SD170 and a pair of Bogner Cubes - sounds awesome - so you could mount the SD on your pedalboard next to the FM3 and single spkr cable out to the Cube and job done..the Cubes really do kick out a thump too and they are fairly light so a pretty easy moveable rig IMO - I've never really had much success with running into a Combo Poweramp - and I've used/have quite a few - Mesa MKV, Bogner Shiva, Bogner Atma, Mesa Stilletto, Mesa IV...the list goes on...
 
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