need to split signal

[Wide Awake]

I want to simultaniously record my electric guitar with a speaker simulator- a Sansamp PSA-1, and a miked 50 watt combo amp. How do I split the signal.....with a splitter box ? If anyone has tried this I would love to know what the results were. Blending the two sounds together with different sounds and effects sounds great on paper but I haven't tried it yet.

 

[Track Rat]

Give this a try. Your amp has two inputs (most of them do anyway). It's a parrallel connection with an attenuator on it (input sensitivity) so it should act like a splitter, it might be down a bit. Try plugging in a short jumper from there to the input of the Sansamp. The only reason I can think of that this might not work well is the attenuator on the second input of the amp. Good luck.

 

[Cakey2]

You need to go down to your local electronic shop, in the style of Radio Shack, Maplin, Tandy or whatever and buy a Y plug. This will have two 6.3mm mono jack sockets and one 6.3mm male mono jack. Plug it into the input of the simulator. Into one socket plug your guitar, into the other plug a lead which runs to the input of your amp.

Have a play.

Does it work?

Bye,

matt

 

[regebro]

Loads of ways to do this. Y-plug is one. It usually works, although it shouldn't in theory. An advanced way of y-plygging is using a patch-panel. If you fins yourself groping behind different recording equipment trying to put in and out plugs a lot, thats a good idea. Many, like the Behringer Ultrapatch can act as y-plugs too.
I also have split a signal with a stereochorus. I put a bass into a stereochorus, recorded one signal direct, and put the other one through an ME-5 guitar processor to put distortion, chorus and reverb on it. Made one Fat-Ass Bass Sound, I'll tell ya! Works if you can't be bothered to get a Y-plug and happen to have a stereochorus lying around...