Effects Loop [FXL] 4 Level Controls

[Phostenix]

OK, I've read the manual & wiki entries on the effects loop & neither explain why there are 4 level controls for a stereo effects loop. Are 1 & 2 the send levels and 3 &4 the return levels or is it something else?

Thanks.

 

[Bakerman]

It's a mixer for what's arriving from the previous column. Level/pan 1 affect row 1, etc.

 

[Phostenix]

That sounds like how the Mixer block functions. Is it the same for the Effects Loop?

 

[Bakerman]

Yes

 

[Phostenix]

That doesn't make sense to me. The effects loop sits inline with one row of blocks on the grid and my understanding is that the signal goes in & out of that FXL block. How would the other rows of the grid come into play here?

With a stereo source connected to the Input 2, the 4 level controls & the Main control of the FXL have no affect on the levels of the signals coming into the FXL block. Only the Level control over to the right (in Axe-Edit) affects my signals coming into Input 2.

 

[Phostenix]

OK, I found the page in the manual on Mixology. So, it looks like the 4 Level controls & the Main control on the FXL only affect signals coming into the FXL block from the 4 rows of the grid? If you input a stereo source from the back panel, those level controls have no affect?

 

[Rex]

Not if you don't connect them to the block through the grid.

 

[Bakerman]

If you mean input 2, no--the 1st FXL page (on front panel UI) won't do anything. Page 1 mixes signals from previous column and sends the result to Out 2. Page 2 takes the In 2 signal and adjusts level/balance if you want, sending that to the next column.

 

[Phostenix]

Thanks.