Ok guy's, went to the rehearsal room,
turned it all on via furman but left the amp off. Found a preset patch on my GT5 using the amp modelling preamp so no (preamp in the loop), walked over to the amp turned it on, raised the volume slowly..................................................hey presto sound right away!!!
Jammed with that for a while, made the onboard stuff sound better for sure did the amp!
Then I switched back to my normal patches that incorporate an external pre in the loop..................hey presto..........................no sound!!!
So the Rockmaster was the culprit most likely the other two times!
Then what? I started inserting a patch cable in all the loop returns at the back, still nothing. Just by chance I rammed it into the foot switch controller socket, BAM! Sound!
Then I was good to go
Jammed for an hour or so, f**king love the Velocity. Best SS amp I have ever used. Softens everything and like makes the strings feel silky to play, really hard to fathom what the hell it's doing. Also seems to add a nice depth to everything and lets the notes jump out when playing lead. I feel I can play a lot softer now as well and get great touch sensitivity. Not exaggerating guy's but I get all this from the amp. Also there is undoubtedly warmth.
I will record some over the next week for you hopefully.