Both Inputs

[VSpaceBoy]

No this is not a porn thread!


I'm just wondering what the reason would be that someone would run a Y cable into BOTH inputs of the amp from one source (guitar).

[Fenderville]

that is so wrong... who was doing that?

[scrubs]

To make it go to 11?

[easychair]

The biggest reason:

They thought they saw someone do it once.

That being said, plenty of people use a short jumper to connect both preamp gain stages on old Marshalls and Fenders that have two channels. Many of them had two channels, each with two inputs. This can give you more gain.

[ggunn]

Originally Posted by easychair

The biggest reason:

They thought they saw someone do it once.

That being said, plenty of people use a short jumper to connect both preamp gain stages on old Marshalls and Fenders that have two channels. Many of them had two channels, each with two inputs. This can give you more gain.

I used to have an old Marshall 50W where one input was really bassy and the other one was really bright. I Y'ed into them both to get a more full range sound.

[Codmate]

It's a cheap way of bi-amping if you have a true 2-channel amp.

You can use it to get a really heavy sound or have one channel clean and one dirty.

On my Fender amp (A Custom Vibrolux Reverb, which has 2 inputs for both channels, one higher gain than the other) you can take a patch cable and plug it into the input you're not using of the channel that you are, and plug the other end into either of the inputs of the other channel.

This sounds odd - but it works! It seems that the spare input of a channel you're not playing in turns into an output.

Maybe an amp guru can step in and explain what's going on here, but it certainly seems to produce great sounds

[Hard2Hear]

On an old AC-30, that plus an AB box is the only way to switch channels. There are 2 channels, but you can't switch them without changing the physical connections.

Lots of amps are set up differently.

H2H

[VSpaceBoy]

Ok, I've never heard or seen anyone use it, I just read about it.

Thanks for the good info.

[Farview]

This only works on a few specific amps. Most amps that have a high and low input won't do you any good.