ABY pedal

Kevincharles

Kevincharles

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I have a THD univalve that ive fallen in love with. but its too quiet so i want to get an ABY pedal to run it with a peavey valveking i have, not the best head ever, but its 100W.

anyone have experience with them? The Radial BigShot ABY seems good to me but ive never played one.
 
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i have a radial bigshot loop thing and it works great, just a passive bypass box. most aby that ive tried suck some tone
 
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The Morly ABY pedal is a real tone sucker... to be avoided...

Don't have any experience with the Radial but they make good kit.

Best bang for the buck, and probably "best" you can get in avoiding tone-suck and bleed between the amps is a Loop-Master... It'll take a few weeks but they're built to order and pretty much indestructible. One of my friends has a loop strip on his board thats at least four years old and its the only thing that hasn't ever needed to be fixed... gigging 3-4 nights a week.

http://loop-master.com/
 
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I have seen a lot of posts in the past regarding ABY boxes say that the Morley sucks. I have been using one for a few years now between my Stiletto and Road King.

I have compared it in the chain and out. I have no more tone/signal loss than any one of my few other pedals (Strobostomp, Morley Bad Horsie 2, MXR Flanger, and an EH Deluxe Stereo Memory Man).

It works as advertised for me. Very little bleed (and I have to turn the inactive amp up quite a bit to hear it), and solid as can be. No noise problems when I run the amps from the same power. Even the 9 volt that runs the LEDs has lasted me for 2 years now.

Maybe I got a bad one?
 
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the a/b part usually isnt the problem its the y part. when you split the signal to two amps usually the tone degrades quite noticably

framptone, lehle, and kendrick make good aby's. the radial switchbone is really nice too
 
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I had a Morley for years and the big problem with it is bleed. I used it with a variety of amps, but manly a Marshall & a Fender. What I would do is set up one as my Rhythm sound and one for solos. The Solo amp would usually have more gain & volume and when this was set up I could hear it "bleeding" into the other channel.

I bought a Loop Master A/B/Y about 2 months ago and it is totally silent and I get no bleed what so ever. It was $58.00. I would highly recommend the Loop Master.

The Radial does not have LED's to indicate what channel you are switched in to. I'm sure it will work fine , but the lack of lights was a deal breaker for me. The loop master is awesome for the money.
 
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Bludave said:
The Radial does not have LED's to indicate what channel you are switched in to. I'm sure it will work fine , but the lack of lights was a deal breaker for me.
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I had the same experience...It worked very well, but the lack of indicator lights was the deal breaker so I returned it. I broke down and purchased a Lehle (I say "broke down" because they are not inexpensive).
 
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I was just about ready to pull the trigger on the Lehle, then remembered The loopmaster. I had a hard time dropping 300$ for a pedal I was going to use mostly at home. I don't usually gig with 2 amps. Most of the places I have played are too small for that much gear.
 
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The pics of the Switchbone on Radial's site shows it with indicator LEDs. Maybe that's a new addition?

I have a Morley ABY that I've used in the past with my Marshalls and never more than a little bit of bleed, and I've never heard any tone suck in any of the positions.
 
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I have a Framptone 3-banger, and it works great. Any or all amps (3 for this one), no noise, no ground loop problems, VERY minimal change in tone. They make a 2 amp version that is cheaper. Unfortunately still pretty expensive.
 
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well, im debating whether its worth 20 bucks or not. i mean if all else fails i can just resell it on craigslist right?


and for the radial bigshot, ive been considering that one. it sounds of quality.
 
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Kevincharles said:
well, im debating whether its worth 20 bucks or not. i mean if all else fails i can just resell it on craigslist right?
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Whats that? The Morley?

I have at least two friends who'd likely give them away... they're that bad. If you can't hear the tonal damage you might need an ear cleaning or have simply spent WAY too much time in front of cracked full-stacks.

Funny... you ask what to get... get a few people saying loop-master... but then avoid the answer.

If you want a cheap A/B but can live without the 'Y' then the DOD is impossible to beat.

Though my all-time favorite A/B wasn't even a switch... it was an Ernie Ball stereo volume pedal set up to pan between a clean blackface and a JCM800. I could 'morph' from clean to dirty and all my delays & reverbs would trail over, sounded & felt really organic. Love that rig.
 
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