Tube driven compressor in series loop RM50

[withmittens]

I have an electro Harmonix Black Finger. it has two 12ax7 tubes at 300 Volts plate voltage (so I've read, not that I would know myself) One drive the input and one the output of the pedal. It has a good amount of tube drive and volume at certain settings.

Am I risking damage to my amp doing this? I try to keep the volume at unity but I wonder if I could harm something......

Thanks

 

[Nightdare]

it's a pedal, not a generator

the voltage your tubes run on has nothing to do with the voltage at your output

 

[withmittens]

thanks for the reply. I had been reading some posts on people frying their V1 and V2 tubes or arcing something., it just started freaking me out a bit. While I think I'm getting great sound i got to thinking I could blow something up. Not too hip to the technical side of gear, just really know how to tweak for a sound I like.

 

[Nightdare]

you'll know soon enough when you start overdriving the Phase inverter that the output is going beyond "usable"
you're still well away from "dangerous" then though

 

[withmittens]

Thanks for the info

 

[audiomidijace]

Just curious, have you tried it in front of the amp instead of the loop?
Usually a compressor would be the first pedal in the chain in front of an amp.

 

[iekobrid]

Don't some amps specifically warn against putting effects that affect dynamics in the loop?

 

[Nightdare]

Don't some amps specifically warn against putting effects that affect dynamics in the loop?

I would think some peaks might be damaging, but for all I know, a compressor doesn't add peaks to a signal

 

[withmittens]

it sounds good in front of everything and that's where it lived for years before I had this amp. Then my music changed and with this mts amp I could get all kinds of sounds that the Black F was allowing me to sort of emulate, and I ditched it. It;s got an input drive and output drive so various crunch or sustained, restrained tones can be had at various volume levels, along with a bit of arrested attack "plunck"

I got it back out to get back into country type sounds and found it overpowered my overdrives in a not nice way, so the loop made sense. it sounds good there although at certain settings I need to crank the output drive to get the amp to respond favorably and thus my fear of harming something

it can also give a very massive rack compressor sound, controlled feedback and the like, thats why I like it. but if it's too much then....