I'm beginning to see the value of a Wet-Dry setup in terms of creating a bigger sound with more clarity, especially when drive effects and reverb/delay effects are being used simultaneously.
The problem is that a proper Wet-Dry setup traditionally involves 2 amps and, having downsized considerably, I don't feel like buying another amp just yet.
Is it possible to get a similar tonal result with only a single amp by splitting the signal prior to the amp, running one half through the amp's own preamp section and simultaneously running the other half through a separate preamp device, returning to the amp's power section via the effects loop?
Aside from the limitations of a single speaker trying to reproduce the resulting signal accurately, I'm struggling to see why this wouldn't work. Yet, I don't see many people doing it this way.
Couldn't this theoretically provide 90% of the effect of having 2 amps driven separately with the compromise likely being a tiny bit of clarity due to the more complex signal? Seems like it might also bypass the speaker phase issues sometimes experienced with a traditional Wet-Dry situation running 2 amps?
Thoughts?
Here's what I'm thinking:
The problem is that a proper Wet-Dry setup traditionally involves 2 amps and, having downsized considerably, I don't feel like buying another amp just yet.
Is it possible to get a similar tonal result with only a single amp by splitting the signal prior to the amp, running one half through the amp's own preamp section and simultaneously running the other half through a separate preamp device, returning to the amp's power section via the effects loop?
Aside from the limitations of a single speaker trying to reproduce the resulting signal accurately, I'm struggling to see why this wouldn't work. Yet, I don't see many people doing it this way.
Couldn't this theoretically provide 90% of the effect of having 2 amps driven separately with the compromise likely being a tiny bit of clarity due to the more complex signal? Seems like it might also bypass the speaker phase issues sometimes experienced with a traditional Wet-Dry situation running 2 amps?
Thoughts?
Here's what I'm thinking:
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