To Bi-Amp or not to Bi-Amp

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I just got a marshall vs100r wich I like alot. But I was wandering is it ok to bi-amp it with my peavey bandit.
Can this hurt the amps, and is there a proper way to do it.
Is there a way to run both amps at the same time?
 
As I understand it bi-amping refers to dividing the frequency at some point and sending all frquencies below that point to one amp and all frequencies above to another amp. This is usually done for sound systems but some bass rigs do this as well. What your talking about is daisy chaining. I have a VS100R and I believe it has a line out on the back. If your other amp has a line in then just connect them up there.
 
Another option you might consider is a slpliter. This takes the output from your guitar and has outputs that can be run to multiple ams. I read an article in the September Recordinging mag on how to build your own (if you feel creative).
 
Bass sucks up the majority of power your output stages deliver. Biamping can eliminate this problem. It is far
better for sound reinforcement systems as allready stated
and probably would do well for keyboards also. In a biamped
system you would have two amps and some kind of crossover,
either passive or active, the signal would be sent to and seperated by the crossover, then sent to each respective amp which in turn would power their respective speakers.
 
you are in good company

Both Stevie Ray and Eric Johnson used two (or more) amps live.With E.J. it is a Deluxe and a Plexi.As noted,biamping actually refers to bass to one amp and treble to another,like a p.a.Feed them both off a line level device like a pedal or preamp split to a Y.
Tom
 
I would recomend the line out from the Peavey into the power amp in of the Marshall, I did this once at a show with really good results. Or if you like the Marshall sound better then you could reverse, myself, I like the Peavey sound. Give 'er a try, I liked it a lot!
 
The main advantage of Biamping is that it is more efficient. I'm not totally sure of the ratios but I understand the amp size required to deliver the same power is about half - ie A biamp system with a 50watt top and a 100watt bottom delivers the same power as a 300watt amp not biamped.

Also the speakers work better cos they are not trying to reproduce 1khz as well as 100hz - hey ED you explain it..;)

John :D
 
We haven't done this yet, but while reading this thread, I thought of the following advantage to this "bi-amp" thing (i'm not an amp guy, BTW)...

Sounds like you're playing live. If so, using two amps would really reduce that annoying switch (imho) between sounds. I think it's really annoying, and you end up dropping one element of sound to get another. Switching one amp's sound or channel would sound better, I think, if you had another tone working with it that remained constant.

IMHO, Limbo, Gimbo, Gumbo.
 
I don't really understand this thread, but I am bi-curious.
 
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