RE: [Harp-L] Two amps

["John Balding" <John.Balding@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm sure you could get all technical with it, and there may be a "best"
way to do it, but I prefer the old-school Y adapter.
Many older bullet mics can put out up to 5M, whereas most amp inputs
have a 1M resistor on them. Truth be told, most of the time the mic is
too "hot" for the amp anyway. Yet we play away, all happy with ourselves
for getting the "perfect match" of mic-to-amp. 99% chance you should
hear/experience no degradation in volume or sound quality when using the
Y adapter.

The inputs of many amps are not in true parallel. That is, one of the
inputs may be a lo-gain or a "Bright" input. The old "4-hole" '59
Bassman amp had four inputs, and none of them were identical. There was
a low-gain Normal, a high-gain Normal, a low-gain Bright, and a
high-gain Bright. Slaving an identical amp from any one of the remaining
inputs would not give "identical" results.

Put the Y adapter at the input of the first amp, then run a separate
cord from the adapter to the second amp. I actually saw someone plug a Y
adapter into the mic once; two cords coming out of the mic. Looked
pretty cool...until he tripped over one of them.

John Balding
Tallahassee, FL

-----Original Message-----
From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Dave Shannon
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:38 PM
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Harp-L] Two amps


Something that I've never tried is playing through two amps at once -- I
should be so lucky to get a gig that requires this. But I have wondered
at the best way to approach this. Any clues? Here are the methods I know
of:

1. Y-lead. Splits the signal -- but is there any loss of tone or a
weakened signal?
2. Slaving an amp. I think this is where you go in input 1 and take a
lead out of input 2 and stick that in input 1 of another amp. Is that
right?
3. Use both outputs on a pedal. Most have a 'dry' out. Means the effect
is only on one amp. But if you have a delay with a stereo output you
could make this work for you.

Any other suggestions? Or answers to my questions?

Dave Shannon

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