Help with Half Rack Setup

[carlosaasilva]

Hey All,

1st let me thank you for accepting me in the forum, hope to be able to contribute.

At the moment I'm running a Set Up with an ENGL E530 Pre-Amp, GMajor and a Peavey Valveking 212 100w.

The Idea is to bypass Valveking Pre and use only its poweramp so I got my connection set like this:

Guitar Connects to ENGL E530 -> ENGL E530 FX Loop Send Connects to GMajor Input (Mono) -> GMajor Output (Mono) Connects to ENGL E530 FX Loop Return -> ENGL E530 Line Out Connects to Peavy Valveking FX Loop Return.

All seems to be working perfectly except that seems that I'm not getting the Valveking Power Amp full Volume lvl as if I was connected directly to Valveking Input with the guitar. I've already got ENGL E530 Line Out lvl knob to Max and that helped. Also tried to have the GMajor Output (Mono) directly to Valveking FX Return instead of ENGL FX Loop Return and was even worst regarding Output lvl.

Any Idea why this occurs?

I'm Quite new for this Rack Diagrams, maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Thank you for any guidance that you can have for me!!

[FELINEGUITARS]

1) It could be the processor dragging down the whole level - try the ENGL straight into the Peavey power smp without the TC in the circuit at all to see if that is better.

2) A lot of amp preamp sections kick out about 3-4V in signal strength - certainly Peavey ones do
The ENGL will kick out about 1V (considered line voltage) and may end up being a lot quieter  than the Valveking's preamp section.

[carlosaasilva]

Hi felineguitars

Thank you for the reply, didnt even tought on gmajor cutting then volume since it is on them loop, but would make since it have input and output volume and also preset volumes...clearly im a noob!!!

Cheers

[carlosaasilva]

Solved the issue!!!

Thanks for the tip felineguitars, gmajor had is global output lvl to -18 don't really know why, now it at 0 e go the normal volume!!