December Birthdays 
this was in this months' myrareguitars newsletter... WR
_"Surf guys outboard reverb unit trick.
Boy did the surf records of the early to mid 60's blow my mind. Imagine guitar records with no singing, simple melodies that almost everyone could cop, and tons of self important guitar slinger attitude. I ran into a surf guitar legend years ago and I asked him how he ran his reverb, because I could see that he had something funky going on there as I saw that his guitar was plugged directly into the amp.
He smiled and told me that he and some of the other cats of that era were using a primitive effects loop so to speak. Here's how they did it.
He ran the guitar into input one of his Showman and then ran a cable from input two to the input of his Fender reverb unit and ran the output of the reverb to the input of channel two (or normal channel). This way he could not only tailor the sound of the unit with the onboard controls he could also utilize the second channels volume and tone controls.
One benefit he did not realize too, was that the guitar running direct into the first channel did not have its dry input signal colored by the reverb unit! This setup is also called the poor mans effects loop." _
—Rules to live by #314:
"When in Italy, if the menu says something's grilled, don't assume it is."
