FX Loop-Chain Splitting

Using MOD devices Setup Questions
#1

I use the NAM Player (https://www.dimehead.de/) as amp and cab. It has an input and an output.
Now I want to use the dwarf as a pedalboard with Gate-Compressor-Overdrive before the NAM PLayer and Chorus-Delay- Reverb after the NAM Player. I set up a pedalboard with 2 chains. One chain from input 1 to output 1 with all Effects before the Amp. and one chain from input 2 to output 2 with effects after the amp. Guitar-Input1-Output 1-Input NAM Player (Amp)-Output NAM PLayer-Input2. But then there is output2 empty and on headphones I hear only on one ear. When I do the same with my Ampero Stage I use an FX Loop Block between the two chaines. Is there any such plugin?

#2

I don`t really understand, could you post a picture of your pedalboard?
There should be no problem, if you have setup your pedalboard correctly.
Did you adjust the input gain? I expect the gain from your guitar (input 1) will have to be quite high, and the one from the NAM quite low (input 2) .
Did you connect your effects from input 2 to the output 2?

#3

I think the problem is, that the NAM Player has only one input and one output. When I want to play with headphones I her the sound only on one side.
my chains are:

  1. Guitar-Input1 MOD-Volume controller-gate-compressor-od-Output1-Input NAM Player.
  2. Output NAM Player-Input2 MOD-Volume controller-chorus-delay-reverb-???

In my Ampero I have only one chain and a FX Loop in the middle. The Ampero has a Send/Return In/out. So I don’t have to use the in and outs like in the Dwarf.

#4

In the second chain you have to connect the last plugin to the second output of the dwarf. Than you can connect the physical output 2 of the dwarf to your speaker.
You’ll get a mono signal processed by your whole chain.

#5

So you have two devices.

  • One nam player, which you use to model amp and cabs, and
  • one dwarf which you would like to use for two separate effects chains to use before and after the nam player.

You have guitar → dwarf chain 1 (output 1) → nam player → dwarf chain 2 (output 2) → headphones

And your issue is that only one channel is reported on the headphones?

If this is correct the easiest thing to do is buy or solder by yourself a simple mono to stereo adapter Cable

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