1 Topic by wasatch (edited by wasatch 2011-05-22 08:47:28)

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Topic: Parallel effects... Anyone tried?

It occurred to me last night that if you can't afford a two amp system, perhaps you could run parallel overdrive pedals into two separate amp channels, like my fender hrd, and maybe come up with something interesting? Specifically, use an a/b/y box into my bluesbreaker pedal for a Marshall dirt, and a zendrive for some dumble dirt. Then you could have one, the other, or both, but in parallel instead of series so they are entering the amps as two separate signals, not stacked. Maybe it would be a jb style rig for the layman?

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Re: Parallel effects... Anyone tried?

wasatch wrote:

It occurred to me last night that if you can't afford a two amp system, perhaps you could run parallel overdrive pedals into two separate amp channels, like my fender hrd, and maybe come up with something interesting? Specifically, use an a/b/y box into my bluesbreaker pedal for a Marshall dirt, and a zendrive for some dumble dirt. Then you could have one, the other, or both, but in parallel instead of series so they are entering the amps as two separate signals, not stacked. Maybe it would be a jb style rig for the layman?


You can do this by using a gigrig loopy. I've done it with a Fender twin. Works a treat.

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Re: Parallel effects... Anyone tried?

Are you saying with two inputs on an amp (like high gain and low gain) to have different effects going through each?

Or on something like a JTM45 there is four inputs...

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