Anyone Ever Try Using a Seperate Amp For Each Pickup?

[goldenhose]

Im thinking of trying it. I wonder what kind of tunes you could get. Like mixing a clean amp with a heavily distorted amp. Supposedly the bass player of yes did this for the owner of a lonely heart song.

 

 

[pixelchemist]

not for each pickup... but i have split the output (through my GT10) one channel clean and one loaded with effects... sounds great

[goldenhose]

I would like to run marshall with a fendertwin.

 

how does it sound with effects and clean sound? Does it give the sound more clarity? less muddy

[axepilot]

 

I would like to run marshall with a fendertwin. how does it sound with effects and clean sound? Does it give the sound more clarity? less muddy

 

 

You'll never really know until you try it - a lot of that depends on the individual amps and their EQ's, the FX, the quality of the A/B/Y box, and the guitar.

 

I run two amps every now and then, but mostly A/B'ed and not "Y'ed". When I do run both together, it's lots of fun mixing the sound from both amps - almost endless possibilities.

[tlbonehead]

I've done it before with my stereo guitars. But I prefer the same pickup through to vastly different sounding amps better. And with my hybrids, the piezo is routed directly to the board and the regular pickups through my dual onstage amps,.

[goldenhose]

:rawk:Im looking for a brutal tone thats tough to duplicate. Like Spinal Tap. Im gonna squeeze 7 pickups on my strat and run 7 marshall stacks

[tlbonehead]

Im looking for a brutal tone thats tough to duplicate

oh.

[Bbreaker]

How about choosing what string that will go to one of 2 different amps?

 

 

[goldenhose]

sweet 6 times 7 equal 42 times the brutalitiy

[iansmitchell]

In the greatful dead's "wall of sound", each polepiece fed into a different amplifier for the bass guitar.

It also served as P.A. and monitor system for the band.

The way they avoided microphonic feedback, was with two microphones in reverse wiring to cancel everything identical between the two microphones. Like a humbucker cancels main hum.

 

Pretty amazing stuff, a band system that kept vinyl-quality fidelity 1/4 of a mile away from the stage.

[FrankenTelly]

Rickenbacker's "Rick-O-Sound" stereo jack has been around for a long time.

[goldenhose]

 

Rickenbacker's "Rick-O-Sound" stereo jack has been around for a long time.

 

 

Im surprised its not more popular.

 

I running 3 amps for my strat would be cool. A marshall, vox, and fender twin

[goldenhose]

I aint trying to copy no one. Just make my own sound like jimi or evh

[veil]

Didn't some new guitar have separate pickups and outputs per string.

 

The processing and production possibilities are {censored}ing limitless.

[sylvesterlowery]

 

Didn't some new guitar have separate pickups and outputs per string. The processing and production possibilities are {censored}ing limitless.

 

 

The Gibson Les Paul Digital maybe?

 

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/divisions/gibson%20usa/products/lespaul/hd6-xprodigitallespaul/

[docjeffrey]

I've done it with my Rickenbackers (620, 360, 360/12). It's kind of cool. I just use a Y cable with stereo on one end and two monos on the other. Rick-O-Sound box is not really necessary.

[johanneswiberg]

Yeah Chris Squire's bass sound is delightful, plugging his Rick into a bass and a guitar amp simultaneously.

 

It might be interesting with a guitar, although hijacking the guitar so that you get two outputs sounds like a hassle... then again I'm not good with that stuff, you might be.

 

Neck pup into clean amp, bridge pup into something hi-gain... I'd love to hear the results.

[csm]

Wasn't that the idea with Gibson's early-60s 'stereo' ES345 and ES355?

[goldenhose]

 

Yeah Chris Squire's bass sound is delightful, plugging his Rick into a bass and a guitar amp simultaneously. It might be interesting with a guitar, although hijacking the guitar so that you get two outputs sounds like a hassle... then again I'm not good with that stuff, you might be. Neck pup into clean amp, bridge pup into something hi-gain... I'd love to hear the results.

 

 

thats what I mean. Or even use clean amps but accenuate the bass and treble for a richer sound.

[Ferdinandstrat]

Didnt the guitarist for Quicksilver Messenger did this?

[Prevue]

I saw a guy at show not too long running a marshall JCM and fender DR in series and it sounded pretty good. I played a rickenbacker 360 through two amps and it didn't really do much for me. As everyone has been saying you just need a stereo input jack.