As a touring musician with over a decade of shows under my belt I aim to provide you with honest to goodness demos, reviews, and tips from what I've learned along the way. What makes certain pieces of gear awesome and where some of them fell short. Using gear that I've taken out, played shows with, shlepped in and out of my car, van, and over-head compartments. Providing you with some insight from someone who's figured it out by doing it wrong too many times to count.
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Sonny you just saved one of my amp speakers 😂 sometimes it pays to not experiment and actually look for an answer
next, an idiot with earrings ! no brain at all !!!!!!!
Can I run my digitec RP 10 into two amps..efeects loop return..for stereo sound.. ?
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.
Can you use 2 Different amps or it has to be the same
Shocking lesson. Thanks
It would have been useful if you demonstrated the AB pedal with the ground lift applied. Many times the ground lift does nothing.
Great vid. Thanks for making it.
Appreciate the video thank you
Hi! Is it possible to set that Boss Chorus in the fx loop of both amps at the same time? Anyone? Thank you
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.
Thanks for your info and experience. Very clear and helpful
Ebtech hum eliminator will get rid of the hum
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.
My old and beates GT6 works just perfect hooked in two amps....
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.
Lift the ground off one amp when running two same time . Was born in Baltimore 🥵
Great information, especially about staying safe. Well done. Phil NYC / Jersey Shore Area
Great video! Stupid question maybe... is there no signal loss by splitting up the signal?
thankss
Last night I hooked up my chorus pedal to 2 amps and I don't think it was out of phase
I have a 50w Plexi and a 50w Silver Jubilee hand-wired clone amps. Can I connect both these amps to my 4x12 cabinet and blend the sound together? How exactly would I wire that? Both my amps can do 4/8/16 ohms, and my cabinet has 3 inputs: an 8ohm Left stereo input that is also a 4ohm mono input, an 8ohm Right stereo input, and a 16ohm mono input. I'd like the tones of my two amps to be blended. What about my effects? Would I put my pre-amp effects like overdrive and wah-wah in front of the Plexi, and then all my other effects like reverb and my EQ pedal in the FX loop of the one of the two amps? Thanks!
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..
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.
I assume the ground lift plug idea is the part you won’t mention. So that would mean with an ABY box, if A is grounded, and B has the ground lift, then when using “y” then amp be is grounded through amp A and when using only amp B , then it’s not grounded? The ground sleeve should always be connected right? So amp B should always be grounded through amp A , regardless of AB or Y operation. The switching only occurring on the tip, not the sleeve of the Jacks correct? If so? Where is the risk of shock? Lots of assumptions here and inferences, but I think you see what I’m getting at, and so how is using a ground lift on one amp a bad idea?
Good video.
Yah you take an adapter that eliminates the ground and then file down the wide blade on the plug that way you can just flip it in the plug in problem solved
Great vid dude thx
Easiest way in my opinion is to buy a a Lehle P-Split and just use it on one of the stereo signal. You can tape it on top of one amp just before it's input and only use the isolated output. 120 bucks and you're essentially good to go. Or you get the Lehle Little Dual: Stereo inputs, stereo outs, aby-switch.
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
How to ground them together.
good work buddy. appreciate that
hell yeah thx m8
Once you have both amplifiers connected through the ABY pedal, how do you change amplifier channels at the same time???
What about a DI box? When I re-amp into 2 amplifiers I take my line out of my interface using a 1/4 male - XLR female cable into the xlr side of a DI box. Than I just run guitar cables from the in/out 1/4 jacks from the DI into each amp and lift the ground. Id imagine you could do the same by just plugging a guitar in to the xlr end of the DI... wonder if it would still cause a phase issue 🤔
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!!
What did they do in the 60's to daisy chain 2 guitar amps together? (Like Mike Bloomfield)
Go orioles
two questions 1. So using a wet/dry setup avoids ground hum and phase? Means i dont need an ABY with phase and ground switches? Would be at least cheaper 2. where do i place my volume pedal when playing wet/dry? At end of all effects would still send a signal to the dry amp wouldnt it?
If using an aby switch where does it sit in the chain with a pedalboard using a looper as the last pedal
Beware the inexpensive ABY box because splitting your input signal essentially cuts your amps signal so significantly that your tone suffers. Get one with some sort of buffer.
thank you.
Just buy a ground Humm plug in and plug both your amps into it and plug that into outlet. It's basically an outlet extension but for ground humm
I do want the stereo pingpong delay though.
That’s was a kool video man
If both amps are the same you should have no problem.
Good points about rehearsal vs. gigging in stereo
Well, it depend on how many instrumets there are in the band.
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
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.
that does not work. just more noise than ever
I had to resolder a stero cable to get my wah pedal to work through my digital effects pedall