Very nice. A no BS answer with no bragging and showing off all your equipment. Good video. :)

This is a fantastic video, so many videos on youtube extol the virtues of these setups but fail to adequately explain how to achieve it. This is so clear and well done, thank you so much

@tysonrinker5958

4 жыл бұрын

True dat. My goal has been a 2 amp rig for the past 2 years and I have finally achieved my goal. Hooking up in 2 days and now I know what I could run into and how to fix

@Shelscast

4 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. It's so much better than other videos! Well done axescent.

@Cymanytb

3 жыл бұрын

Hi ! Sorry for replying here but can I hook up any two amps together? I'm thinking of hooking up two katana 100s

@mindfall82

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cymanytb if you use 2 exact same amps you shouldn't have phase issues

@Cymanytb

3 жыл бұрын

@@mindfall82 okay, thanks

By far the best explanation, without a ton of small talk, and with actually useful information.

About the phase, if you don't have a true ABY box: you can hook an overdrive or a boost before one of the amps. That should reverse the phase. About the ground loop issue, if you don't have a true ABY box: insert a buffer (a non-true bypass pedal) before one of the amps. That will kill the ground loop (without killing you in the process).

How did youtube know I've started thinking about running two amps. Get out of my head. Nice vid, dude.

@paulpugh5315

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for a great demo.....no faffin around....just straight to the point...( when guys start going off peiste i move on).....👍👍👍👍

@keithclark486

3 жыл бұрын

KZread didn't know , You obviously searched this out. It's all in the head The brain is the most powerful thing , the way one thinks.

Great video with simple technical breakdown. I ran ABY & direct interface back in the 80s & you could piggyback off those as well. Look forward to more from you. Thanks

thx for posting. i know little about this but the way you explained made more sense to me than the way it jas explained in the past. i'm definitely going the wet dry route for now on.

Congrats! I'd never actually SEEN phasing before!

Simplest and best video I have saw on the subject.

Great video, so clearly and well explained. Thanks for posting

Thank you for this video. It was very informative and helped me figure out the solutions for using two amps.

This is the best video on how to running 2 amps. Thanks

Thanks for the very good explanation, very nicely done!!

I was looking for a proper way to go stereo as I plan to trigger soft synths through guitar jam on ipad and not to loose the original guitar signal and sound. I even checked out Parker guitars and other piezo/conventional solutions and was quite close to a needless purchase. So thank you very much! Cheers!

Awesome video. Great job at keeping it simple and understandable

best simple video...watches a few others .did not really understand. Im just starting and this was the basics thanks again

Awesome, well-reasoned, thoughtful video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge on the subject. Looks like I need a Radial Big Shot. Seems to do everything I'll need.

Nice visual of in and out of phase! Thank you!!

Very informative. Well presented as well. Thanks!!

Really nice, simple to understand explanation. Cheers.

Just for anyone who doesn't understand why a sound guy, the guy who's suppose to give you your sound to the audience and we'll, doesn't pan...Panning is pointless for live shows. Even if sound guy put you in stereo like you want him to. One amp through left main, other amp through right main. The audience on left main speaker won't hear the right pan on right main speaker, and vice versa. Which is exactly why sound guys don't do it and a lot of time don't even run in stereo. The few people that are exactly in the middle. Literally right in the middle might hear it but that's a very small percentage and the sound guys goal is making you sounds good to everyone not a very small percentage.

@lotromaster14

5 жыл бұрын

Danny Rivers maybe if you put the cab sideways it might help?

@tysonrinker5958

4 жыл бұрын

True

@joeguy6351

4 жыл бұрын

@@lotromaster14 ?

@meltyboys946

4 жыл бұрын

long speaker cables... You run both amps and use 4 cabs... you have 1 cab for each amp on each side.. seems annoying but honestly it sends your stereo sound to both sides of the house because you're running two amps and 4 cabs amp 1 sends a signal to cab A1 and B1 amp 2 sends a signal to cab B1 and B2 Left side is A1 + B1 and right side is A2 + B2. Seems complicated but you end up with an excellent live sound. Use 2x12's if you don't like 4x12's... Or even 1x12s because you'd be running 4 four cabs so 4 speakers would be enough.

@jontangenes9275

3 жыл бұрын

The sound guy doesnt have to pan your stereo guitar 100% , right. His job, during the sound test, is also to walk around in the crowd area, and check if the panning is to hard. .

thanks, cool demonstration of the speaker phase!

Bro great video in teaching us! Learned all about it, thank you so much!!!

Great video.!. I've been interested in how to run two amps together,along with getting that ping pong effect. Your tutorial was easily understood. I've been playing guitar since a kid.. But running 2 amps is something I've never put much thought into. KZread.You gotta love it.

My Blackstar has a ground lift. and I also have a Humx. I play in a lot of older buildings. so I just wanted to prepared. but now I want to hook both amps together. cool video

Thanks for your info and experience. Very clear and helpful

Thank you man. I enjoyed it. And am glad that learned more than I expected. Really well presentation. If I apply this, man it would be fantastic.

One of the better video lessons. Thx🤘 cheers

If you have problems with ground loop hum I recommend checking out the hum-x. Works wonders for me!

@axescent: You did a fantastic job on this subject

Nice video-I was just hearing about the amp phasing yesterday. Go O's!

Awesome video, especially the part about being out of phase. I was always wondering what the hell was going on with that! Makes perfect sense now.

Thank for this video! Very helpful.

nice, easy explanation and helpful. Thanks

Excellent info! Very appreciated🤘

Shocking lesson. Thanks

Thanks for the info. I'm getting the HOTSHOT

Solid info, in plain English. Bravo. Thanks!

Extremely helpful, thanks!

On stage, I used to use a splitter to go to my Marshall Bluesbreaker on one side and a Roland 120 Jazz Chorus on the other. I could toggle between them for clean and distorted passages or both on for balls out.

thanx for the education session, very helpful. Cheers bro !

Lehle has a stereo ABY called the little dual with a phase and isolated ground. Its awesome

Very good explanation mate, cheers

good work buddy. appreciate that

Great explanation. Two questions though. 1) Say I DID want to run stereo out of my stereo effects pedal into two different amps. What would need to go between my pedal and my two amps in order to avoid ground hum? I think you didn't fully answer that since that's rarely able to be done at a venue, but I'd still like to know! 2) To run a wet/dry signal path: The last three pedals in my chain are chorus > delay > reverb. I'm thinking of ending my dry signal chain after the chorus and ending my wet chain after the reverb. However, this seems it would present the same ground loop issue. So I guess the two questions are really just how do I run two different signals into two different amps without ground loop? Because the Radial BigShot only has one input.

Thanks for the heads up man!

If you use the a/b switch to play over a loop, you can have an orange micro crush or another amp with aux input. You plug a preamp with effect modulator in chain with your looper into the aux input and the A section. You plug B section in your pedalboard into the amp. The looper will play in aux input while you switch directly in the amp for your lead tone. There is many way you can do it you can put your effects before the a/b switch and only a preamp and looper after in section A. And go direct into the amp in section B

my Peavy rage amp has a pre amp out feature! works great,too!

Great vid. Thanks for making it.

Great information, especially about staying safe. Well done. Phil NYC / Jersey Shore Area

This video saved me of making a big mistake. Thanks for sharing!

Good points about rehearsal vs. gigging in stereo

@jontangenes9275

3 жыл бұрын

Well, it depend on how many instrumets there are in the band.

Nice video. Essentially all you need is an audio transformer to lift the ground hum. It has to be running as a true ground isolated circuit. then the phase switch is also easy to put in too, as this just switches the output from the transformer. That being said the problem comes if you are running different pedals after the Y switch. Then the phase may be reversed by distortion and overdrive pedals. And will give you a true out of phase between the two amps, or in one amp running in parallel input mode. I've thought about running a transformer with every pedal that flips the phase, through a pedal switching board that i'd have to make. Thoughts..

You are sooooo good at this. You should make videos!

Perfect !!!. Thank you.

Incredible job explaining this. There is one other safe method to interrupt ground loop. Disconnect the ground on one audio cable and it will still drive the input with the tip connector alone. I hope you are still doing well. It's a pretty old video and no new videos for over 5 years.

@jacksoncrate

2 жыл бұрын

that does not work. just more noise than ever

Excellent video. Is it possible that phasing is reduced with different amps or by applying different effects to different amps?

Dual mono with a tiny delay (4-6ms) on one amp is awesome.

Great video! I do wonder as some may have access to the speakers…some grill clothes come off and you don’t see much moving. You probably could put something over the speaker that’s thing, to see if it’s sucking in or out. My brain crapped out for a bit figuring it out. But the key was to see what happens when the nite resolves. Here you’re just doing half time type strums. I was just hitting a long E. So I figured when the note resolves, if the speaker pops foward…out of phase. If the speaker pops back when it resolves in phase. I personally just do A/B only one amp at a time. Because running two amps…if you turn one off, volume will drop. However, it can be nice to punch a heavy gain one in and out. That’s how I like to do it! One amp mostly clean and gets the entire board. Dirty amp is dirty, and has no effects. So when switching it’s just a lot tighter sound to get out of say 3 effects pedals stacked…without having to have a Gigrig or scene programmable board. This one helps a lot! As I was having issues in a room figuring it out. I’ll have to get a cloth and stretch it out over the cab to see which way it’s pulling. It’s a bit difficult just looking at the speaker for me sometimes. And some grill clothes are just solid and don’t move at all.

I totally get it now after you explained how phase is basically polarity and by switching positive and negative wires on the lead you can get around not having a phase switch pedal. Nobody explained it like that before.

Awesome vid man, thanks a lot. Hey, what about using the fx loop to enslave amps? Any tips?

super helpful thanks brother

Thanks for this video!

Thanks man!!!!… very informative!!!!…. I got this thought in my head that I could use a fender bass amp and a fender 2 x 12 at the same time …..I mean …why not. It can’t be that bad but ….I don’t know how to do it so thanks man most likely it’ll be horrible but I’m gonna try it

Thanks for the info!!

Good knowledge,keep it up

Thank you very informative!

Great video, subscribed!

Neutrik makes very small transformer isolators that work fine, Palmer makes one as well, and it has jack in/jack out. With Neutrik you need a female XLR - jack for it to work.

Fantastic very informative

Charm City represent and good video. I know what to get now !

Great vid dude thx

thanks that helped tremendously, now i know the problem. ground loop hum. gotta buy new pedel-cheers.

Sonny you just saved one of my amp speakers 😂 sometimes it pays to not experiment and actually look for an answer

Very useful, thanks mate :D

very clear ,thanks

Great video. Answered quite a few questions I had. ....but.... With a head and cab, instead of swapping on end of the wires inside your speaker cable; couldn't you technically swap one end of the wires inside the cab that connect the speakers to the Jack? I can't help think that if you are trying to avoid soldering, the inside of the cab might be the way to do this as long as the leads to the speakers are using a coupler or a clip instead of being soldered.

Great video

I was starting to mention the 'other way' and how to do it safely but stopped since you made a statement about it right because it's too easy to do it unsafely... ALSO, ground loops inside the guitar itself is an issue I've fixed for a lot of people over the years as well (and also don't forget that [cliché example, lol] that strats are noisy, low battery in active setups can make a lot of hissing, etc... aaaaanyway, lol, there are a lot of damn variables and examples...lol. (and this comment is to everyone btw. Great video man!!

Appreciate the video thank you

Great video, thanks man. Go O's!

Thanks for the knawledge

Thanks for this video. I'm a neophyte when it comes to this stuff. Is there a way to use an expression or volume pedal to control the level of both amps? For example, if I want the cleans of a Fender amp and the distortion of a Marshall, is it easy to use an expression pedal to control the mix level of both amps? I think this would be better than a drastic switch between clean and distortion.... more of a transition. Thanks for any insight.

That’s was a kool video man

Great vid for sure......But don't you also need an aby with transformer isolate switch that toggles from isolate to direct for extra safety?

Good video.

Couldn’t you just use a noise gate to get rid of that hum? Great video btw helped a lot I’m looking into that radial seems like a great product.

The Lehle SGOS also solves the stereo problem because it has stereo ins & outs.

You can also do this with the Boss tuner pedals. They have a bypass jack aswell as a normal, and they dont do anything to your sound. Plus you get a tuner, so..

Hi there. Thanks for the video. I'm wanting to run a wet dry setup. I have a Mesa Boogie 2x12 a Peavey classic 30 1x12. I want to use my Mesa as my main amp for drives and use the Peavey to put the delays and reverbs in. I also want to be able to run my delays and reverbs in my Mesa too though when just using the one amp or if I'm using the two amps? Not sure if it's possible to have it switched between a wet dry to stereo with the flick of a button? At least I want the wet dry plus the use of the mesa with the delays (in the fx loop of the mesa) I am new to this kind of setup and it's blowing my tiny mind on how to do it. I've got a sore head with it all. I'd love to be to do a wet dry stereo mix. I thought I'd ask you as you seem to be pretty informative to a lot of the other rack videos. Thanks

Had this experimental idea to getting a Roland Jazz Chorus 120 for it's cleans but putting my Peavey VTM 120 on top for the distortion, (using JC-120 as a cab) but afraid of blowing it out

Hey Man great video. Thanks! I was wondering if you could clear this up for me. I have a mesa head and a diavlo head that I want to run together. I bought the bigshot aby pedal. The only pedals that I use are an OD a noise gate and a ditto. I also have an HX stomp. Currently I have the noise gate and the stomp and the ditto in the mesa fx loop and the od just in front. I want to be able to hook the randall up and have it be exactly the way the mesa is now but be able to use both amps at the same time. How do I hook this up?

You can also use two tuners, like a TU2 or TU3 by Boss.

@JordanEsker

8 жыл бұрын

Does that work with a stereo setup? And does that avoid ground loop hum?

good job thanks.

Thank You!

If your other amp is plugged in another power circuit as left side and right side of stage is likely a different circuit that is out of ground phase and you get high hum ! The Radial pedal fixes out of phase circuits with the switches and isolation transformer it has but the pedal is passive . No power needed ! I had inconsistent chorus pedal performance due to different resistance in my hookup cables and affected the output and at times the sound one amp died ? My Radial ABY also had problems as one amp would quit getting the signal so i called Radial engineering and the tech said it is a ohm problem and very complicated and recommended using there active Radial pedal which is expensive ! This is a good demo of using two amps but if you still have problems call Radial for the correct fix !

Thanks mate.

Great video! Stupid question maybe... is there no signal loss by splitting up the signal?

I built a guitar cab and after a bit of research bought a Eminence GA-SC64 8ohm with a 40w power rating. As an impulse buy I found a Vox VT50 modeling amp with a tube in it. It is 50w. It also has an external speaker out at 8ohm which turns off the internal speaker. After talking with tech support and reading the manual for the Vox, I realize my "mistake" however Eminence tech is saying the GA-SC64 is really a 50 w speaker. And so I'm going to try it in a day or two seeing the cabinet is not here as it is being re-stained and polyurethaned. On top of all of the confusion, I want to record via Direct box for a dry signal so I can reamp it later after recording is said and done. And so, after hearing the internal speaker and the Eminence, I may decide to build a different cab with a 16ohm and replace the internal with a 16ohm wiring the internal and external as if it were not a 1x12 combo amp but a 2x12 combo amp with an 8ohm impedance. What are your thoughts? A salesman at guitar center suggested just getting a 20w amp head for $179.00 for the cabinet build. He was like just buy a head for the cabinet. Am I making this two confusing. The principal is to have a wide variety of tone choices and reamping with the VT50, seeing it is 22 amps as one, might be very useful for mixing later on. I looked at a greenback 16ohm with perhaps another 16ohm celestron and find this might be what I really want albeit the eminence is a solid speaker as well. Selling the custom cab seems more likely.

Hello! great video!. I have a question I want to run my Peavey Classic 30 and Peavey Bandit in stereo with my pedals, so I own five stereo pedals (line 6 mm4, marshall reflector reverb, digitech digidelay, tc electronics nova delay and my digitech jamman stereo looper). In your video you showed that you run the chorus on stereo onto the amps. But in my case I dont have enough cables to run all of my pedals in stereo starting from the first one to the last one. So, does it make any difference if I only run one or two of the last pedals on stereo out to both amps? Thanks a lot! :)