2 AMPS in STEREO

[Rickson Gracie]

I have 2 small tube amps that i would like to run in stereo. ive heard people mention the boss super chorus as a nice way to get the amps to sound good together.

does anyone else have any other ideas for pedals? effects? settings?

thanks

 

[Myriad_Rocker]

Um...an ABY?

 

[Rickson Gracie]

i already have a morley ABY pedal but thats it. im think about bringing it back to the store if i can get something ill have more use for in this situation.

 

[Farview]

Why do you want to run stereo. You are only one instrument. Putting a stereo chorus into 2 amps will make you sound weaker. If the PA you are running throug is in mono and the sound guy mics up both sides, your guitar will be out of phase with itself every modulation sweep. If he only mics one speaker, it is a total waste because you are the only one that will notice. If you have the cabinets right next to each other, you will only get the stereo effect if you place your head right between the cabinets.

 

[Rickson Gracie]

Thanks for the reply but I don't and don't plan on playing out anytime soon.

I just like jamming in my home studio where I place both amps (blues jr. And the gibson ga5 les paul jr. Amp) directly at me and I sit in between both. I'm not even really interested in recording this setup either.

I was thinking maybe have the gibson amp direct and adding chorus on the blues jr?

By the way if you look up some "rigs" on guitargeek.com, stereo setups are common for pro players in live situations but many are too elaborate for me to copy.

 

[spoonie g]

I use a stereo setup. well, actually, it's usually a/b, but I run them both on about 15-20% of my band's songs.

 

[mixmkr]

I play live and run a stereo setup as well. Granted, out front it is pretty much lost, but for me, the sound is MUCH better and I enjoy it that much more. Getting better "feedback" from my amps helps me to play better too...much better.

 

[Hard2Hear]

Another Cincy boy, Rock Hordinski, has the best stereo live setup I have ever heard live. He usually has 2 really old Vobroluxes spread far left and right of stage and they go through the house like that, too. If you want to hear some really cool stereo guitar ideas, look at his website and take a listen. It's pretty cool.

http://www.monkmusic.com/


H2H

 

[mixmkr]

h2h...help us with a better link to those stereo licks....

thanks

 

[Outlaws]

I sold my PolyChorus because I wasn't using it that much, but its a great pedal for what you want.

It has an option for double track. It lets you control how far the amnps are from wach other and how in sync you want the two trcks to be and how often you want them to fall in and out of the hot spot (within 20m/s of each other).

Get one at Guitar Center and try it out at home. Then take it back if you don't like it.

Its $200, but worth it if you value a stereo detup that isn't driven by a stereo sound only with delay going.

 

[Toki987]

Here`s a pic of a friend I pick with quite a bit. He keeps a Matchless on the left and a Deluxe on the right behind him. It's a beautiful sound on stage. He use a hotrodded ernie ball pedal to control the two amps, depending on the type of music or guitar he`s using at the time.

 

[Farview]

By the way if you look up some "rigs" on guitargeek.com, stereo setups are common for pro players in live situations but many are too elaborate for me to copy.

That site has a lot of outdated and just wrong info. I looked up the rigs of people I've worked with (and helped design thier rigs) and sometimes it was right and sometimes it was wrong. You have to realize that if these people have major indorsements, not to mention a signature head, there is a lot of money riding on people thinking that they use that stuff and nothing else. There is also a need (or want) on the part of the artist to make you think that every cabinet on stage is lit up.
Most of the stereo rigs that I have seen are set up so 1 amp gets the uneffected signal all the time and the others have effects in them. That is to give the FOH guy half a chance of getting a good mix. It has nothing to do with it being stereo, it has to do with having separate signal paths that are optimized for what they are being used for. For example having an amp that is very good at clean tones do them and a separate amp for distorted tones and a third amp for the effects.

 

[Hard2Hear]

h2h...help us with a better link to those stereo licks....

thanks

He has a coule songs under "recordings". I didn't realize the music on the site was so sparse now. Not a great representation of what he does. It is a very col live stereo sound, though, that you have to hear live to really get.

H2H

 

[metalj]

how about trying a stereo guitar proccessor through the effects loop of both. L/R in and outs to to the send and returns of one amp being the left and one ampp being the right. of course you could only use the effects out of your proccessor throught the effects loops, and you'd have to use both amps pre-amp for channel switching which could be tricky, bit if you had the right switch that could control channell switching from clean to distorted to lead channel it would sound really good and wide. The only bad part is, youd be tap dancing all night getting the channel you want. I've done it and it sounds sweet, but found out it wasnt worth it for me. I agree with MIXMKR, that it doesnt translate to the front of house as much as you hear it on stage.