How To: Slaving Amps

[LLL]

Re: How To: Slaving Amps

Here's some more info (there's tons of it out on the innerwebs because the concept has been around for prolly 50 years) from an SD blog article:

https://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/tips-and-tricks/obey-your-master-the-art-of-amp-slaving

 

[Aceman]

Re: How To: Slaving Amps

Slaving is the multi-purpose miracle "tool" (concept) for guitarists. With slaving, you can a number of things:
- add FX (especially those pesky time-based ones that turn to mush in front of amp) after the entire amp; just like having a studio console with your rig. Some amps don't even have FX loops (mine for ex.). You get crystal-clear delay repeats and reverb, etc.
- get fully cranked tube amp tone at any volume with absolutely no attenuator mush or thin, buzzy "master volume on 1" bedroom tone or crappy "I get all my clipping and compression from my RAT distortion box!" tone
- combine two amps (the tone stack thing) for more gain and/or for a more unique sound with the benefits of the above... EQ wisely or slap an EQ between amps
- take a quieter amp whose tone you love (small combo for ex) and make it LOUD
- other benefits (WDW setup, stage monitoring etc)

Anyhoo, like I said: I need to make a new updated vid and add all the extras you can do with slaving.

I'm really not so sure it is a "miracle" tool. Any of the things you list can be done a number of ways. There are certainly times and places you might choose to do any of them one way or another.

I really would like to see your full-version of how to do many of those things. That said - there is a lot to do and no doubt noobs may well be confused. See the "Critical Analysis" thread for a list of considerations.

 

[Securb]

Re: How To: Slaving Amps

Here's an example of a highly portable slave rig setup I use for small gigs

How many people can you fit in that bathroom?

 

[El Dunco]

Re: How To: Slaving Amps

How many people can you fit in that bathroom?

Don't do it man.

 

[Mincer]

Re: How To: Slaving Amps

I am going to close this now, as there is lots of info about this posted in this thread, and it will still be searchable. But it does seem to be teetering on getting out of hand.