Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:36 pm Post subject: Stereo amp + effects rigs
Looking for general opinions and experiences here, cos I know what a knowledgable lot you all are.....
At the moment I run a Line 6 Flextone, with the 2 XLRs coming out the back and fed into the PA (panned hard left and right), which gives really great stereo effects (I nearly always use tap-tempo ping-pong delays live) and these help to produce a nice wide sound.
How many of you out there run stereo setups? And if so, how do you do it? In particular, I'm wondering how you'd create a stereo setup similar to the one I run, but by using stripped-down valve amps like the Cornfords etc...
I was always a valve-fanatic until I switched to Line6, and now I couldn't imagine gigging without my stereo setup. So the question is, should I ever make the move back to small valve-combos, what would I need to get this sort of stereo setup but using, say, a Cornford Hurricane.
This might seem a stupid question, but I'm interested in how (or even if) the big players get stereo setups when their amps aren't necessarily stereo themselves.
Ed, you seem to have set up a few monster rigs....maybe you can shed some light here? Do you have to start looking at rackmount gear in this situation?
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:44 am Post subject:
Well, one option is using the line out of an amp and sending it to an effects processor and then into another amp for a wet/dry set-up or a stereo power amp for a wet/dry/wet set-up. It's nice to have a dry sound and another amp or two for the wet effected signal(s).
Running two separate amps is also a good option. You can have the effects send of both amps go into a stereo processor (stereo-ins and stereo-outs) and come back into the returns of the amps. Having two different kinds of amps instead of identical amps is a good way to combine the sound of the two to create one really big sound. For instance, one amp could be on the bright side with a lot of high-mids while another accentuating the low-mids and the bottom. Combining the two would give you a very big sound. SRV and Adam Jones of Tool are well-known for taking this approach to create one big sound out of multiple amps. _________________ Ed Yoon
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