Road king+Mark IV
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halfnote
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Wouldn't the easiest way be to use a stereo effect like chourus or delay? Perhaps a multi effects.
halfnote
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Yeah, you run your guitar into a stereo chorus and then run the left out to one amp and the right out to the other. This is the only way to run them in true strereo. You can slave one amp of the other but it wont be stereo it will just be one preamp running two power amps. Is that what you want to do?
The only way to pan or ping pong between the two amps for strereo is with an effect. You can use your effects loops in the Mark to create a stereo rig but you're not going to get a "stereo" sound without some sort of panning effect.
I could be mistaken, someone please correct me if I am.
The only way to pan or ping pong between the two amps for strereo is with an effect. You can use your effects loops in the Mark to create a stereo rig but you're not going to get a "stereo" sound without some sort of panning effect.
I could be mistaken, someone please correct me if I am.
ryjan
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babow2
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A stereo effect will do the trick and send the single incoming signal from the guitar to two outputs. However, an A/B splitter will do the same thing. Any A/B pedal that will allow you to get two outgoing signals from a single input signal will work. At that point, the one guitar sends a signal to both amps, which can be set differently. Voila- stereo. You don't have to have panning effects to have stereo, but those effects take advantage of the stereo spread. having the ability to set the two amps differently is also stereo.
So, you can do it easily with a single in/dual out pedal.
So, you can do it easily with a single in/dual out pedal.
Two amps split in an A/B/Y box does not make a stereo rig. You are just playing through two amps! True stereo would but a single input source through a single preamp then the preamp signal split right and left into two separate power stages.
Trying to run two amps through a stereo FX pedal such as a delay or chorus, will get you all sorts of ground loop hum and phasing issues. One of the best and cheapest way to run two amps is a Lehle P-Split with very good audio quality. A higher end splitter is a Little Labs PCP Distro (www.littlelabs.com).
Steve
Trying to run two amps through a stereo FX pedal such as a delay or chorus, will get you all sorts of ground loop hum and phasing issues. One of the best and cheapest way to run two amps is a Lehle P-Split with very good audio quality. A higher end splitter is a Little Labs PCP Distro (www.littlelabs.com).
Steve
halfnote
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steve_k said:
That doesn't make any sense to me. Why would it matter if you have one or two preamps? Wouldn't the difference in sound created by having two different pre's accentuate the stereo effect? I have run two amps at the same time many times by way of a stereo chorus and delay and never had a ground loop issue, that is the whole purpose of having a stereo effect.
babow2
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+1 to halfnote.
All stereo is is a left and right signal that you can control separately. from a single source that doesn't have a panning "effect" having two amps that can be adjusted separately basically is a Left channel with a set of controls and a right channel with a set of controls, so each can sound different. That is a left and right sound stage. whether you have effects split between the channels or panning across the channels is how you use the soundstage, but from a single input, splitting it to two separately controlled amps is creating a stereo soundstage. That is all stereo is. Where sound fits in that sound stage and how you use that soundstage is a different issue.
All stereo is is a left and right signal that you can control separately. from a single source that doesn't have a panning "effect" having two amps that can be adjusted separately basically is a Left channel with a set of controls and a right channel with a set of controls, so each can sound different. That is a left and right sound stage. whether you have effects split between the channels or panning across the channels is how you use the soundstage, but from a single input, splitting it to two separately controlled amps is creating a stereo soundstage. That is all stereo is. Where sound fits in that sound stage and how you use that soundstage is a different issue.
