Many people have been asking my friends at Laboga and myself about why I requested to have seperate fx send/returns on my killer Laboga Mr. Hector Annihilator model.

Every club, hall, theatre and arena all have the potential to have bad grounding or be situated near a power station, power lines or other interferences. This can and often ends up driving guitarists and crews crazy when the result is a huge hum or buzz through the guitar rig! I would say, from my experience touring the world since 1989, that more than 50% of the venues out there have problems with this.

Since I run two different tones out of my Laboga amps, clean and dirty channels, I need to be able to adjust the noise gate differently between the 2 channels. Clean usually does not require much gating whereas the powerful, loud and distorted dirty channel will always need to be more clamped down (more heavily gated).

I needed a separate fx send/return for other reasons, too. I like a delay/chorus unit on my clean sound but not on my dirty, so the separate returns let me do this. Same with compression. I like compression on my clean tone to help smooth out inconsistent picking but I don't want any on my dirty channel.

So there you go. Having only one fx send/return means that any fx, gating and/or compression will be applied to both your clean and dirty channels. With my Laboga Mr. Hector Annihilator model, you have complete and independent control over your rock or metal tone and your clean channel!