Switching/Upgrading to a Fender Amp

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We’ve been down this FX loop path a few times:

An amp that checks all the boxes?

Putting a looper in the FX loop can be a good thing or it can be somewhat limiting – what you put in the loop is what you get. I never know how much gain and exactly what tone I want going in with a particular loop. I like to lay down a clean loop in the looper and then add an amp sim/preamp type of pedal after it. In my case that’s usually the Joyo American Sound. Drive pedals in the FX loop can be cool too. That way I can add gain, and other tone/EQ changes to the loop on the fly. Putting an …

Don’t rule out how cool it can be to put a preamp pedal in the FX loop.