Hey everyone, I've got a bit of an issue with my Dualie.
I've got a mid-2000s Dual Rectifier, and god knows it delivers gain in spades when I want it. I don't always want it, though, and with my pickups (SD Blackouts) it's hard to get a working clean tone on the amp on its own. I can do it all day with my Pod HD500, though, so my first natural instinct was to go the four-cable route and use Pod preamps for cleans - which would save me a lot of time switching anyway.
I sort of feel like I've already figured out the issue myself, but I want to make sure I'm not missing something here. When I get everything up and running I leave the Mesa turned to red, since theoretically I should be bypassing the preamp with the Pod the way I have it set up and therefore wouldn't need to change channels. Except I do. With the POD running straight into the FX return and the Mesa on red I'm still getting a pretty decent amount of crunch coming through.
I've spent the last week running on about two hours of sleep 'cause the problem had me upset so much, but if I'm correct the issue is that Rectifiers with the parallel loops don't -actually- mix to 100 percent, right? My idea is to just have the series mod done so I can properly run this setup, but I've also read in a couple of instances that apparently some of the tone can STILL bleed through.
Can anyone tell me if I've got the problem right, and whether or not any preamp tone will come through to the other side of the loop if I do the series mod? Thanks for taking the time to read this.
I've got a mid-2000s Dual Rectifier, and god knows it delivers gain in spades when I want it. I don't always want it, though, and with my pickups (SD Blackouts) it's hard to get a working clean tone on the amp on its own. I can do it all day with my Pod HD500, though, so my first natural instinct was to go the four-cable route and use Pod preamps for cleans - which would save me a lot of time switching anyway.
I sort of feel like I've already figured out the issue myself, but I want to make sure I'm not missing something here. When I get everything up and running I leave the Mesa turned to red, since theoretically I should be bypassing the preamp with the Pod the way I have it set up and therefore wouldn't need to change channels. Except I do. With the POD running straight into the FX return and the Mesa on red I'm still getting a pretty decent amount of crunch coming through.
I've spent the last week running on about two hours of sleep 'cause the problem had me upset so much, but if I'm correct the issue is that Rectifiers with the parallel loops don't -actually- mix to 100 percent, right? My idea is to just have the series mod done so I can properly run this setup, but I've also read in a couple of instances that apparently some of the tone can STILL bleed through.
Can anyone tell me if I've got the problem right, and whether or not any preamp tone will come through to the other side of the loop if I do the series mod? Thanks for taking the time to read this.