Question about low-watt amps-

[youngthrasher9]

Is there any way to blend the sounds of a low-watt amp like a dark terror with something bigger like maybe a 6505? Like using the dark terror as boost for the 6505, not to get more gain but to add some of the character of the terror to the 6505?

 

[Khriss Bliss]

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Sure. When you see those traditional rows of Marshall stacks, often one is overdriven first and the others sorta carry the signal like slaves to the other cabs. & of course, some might be for backup or show, but ...

I have nothing against the Orange amps ive tried, but i hear an easy to get preamp distortion. So id settle for a Blackstar, or Seymour Duncan Mayhem pedal with a real preamp tube built in, & use that into a 6505, prob with the preamp low, the master hi.
But im a cheapskate, & havent heard the Dark terror yet.

So, to the OP, yes u could do that,...

 

[youngthrasher9]

Re: Question about low-watt amps-

Sure. When you see those traditional rows of Marshall stacks, often one is overdriven first and the others sorta carry the signal like slaves to the other cabs. & of course, some might be for backup or show, but ...

I have nothing against the Orange amps ive tried, but i hear an easy to get preamp distortion. So id settle for a Blackstar, or Seymour Duncan Mayhem pedal with a real preamp tube built in, & use that into a 6505, prob with the preamp low, the master hi.
But im a cheapskate, & havent heard the Dark terror yet.

So, to the OP, yes u could do that,...

Thanks for the answer. I was just using those amps as an example really.

 

[Chickenwings]

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parallell inputs are cool for blending amp tones, but your impedance changes so it doesnt sound exactly the same as if you plugged into each amp separately. Also, a lot of modern amps dont have parallel inputs. Or you can get a nice active splitter (like the radial) if you want a sound more like a prefect blend of the two amps.

 

[Laughing Kookaburra]

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Electricity sucks.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

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As already stated, some amps are designed such that they can be used as a preamp stage into another amp. The EAST Studio 2 is such an amp, but at $1400, might be more than you want to spend.

I have used the Studio 2 as an addition gain stage going into both a plexi and a Marshall Major. Definitely got the gain way up there and sounded really cool, but like I said -- not cheap!!

 

[uOpt]

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Just set the small amp to all neutral and route it's line out into an Axe-FX

 

[ItsaBass]

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If the big amp has an effects loop, and the little amp has a line out, you can just put the little amp in the effects loop and set it to dirty up the tone, while keeping the volume/noise down with the big amp. Basically, the volume on the little amp acts like a gain/dirt control, and the volume of the big amp acts like a master volume. Not orthodox, but in lieu of an amp with the right blend of volume and natural dirtiness, I do it, and it works. I had a line out installed on my Jet II. I hook it up in the effects loop of either my Reverberocket or my Super Rocket. A noise reduction pedal between the line out of the little amp and the line in of the big amp helps a lot.

 

[Chris of Arabia]

Re: Question about low-watt amps-

If the big amp has an effects loop, and the little amp has a line out, you can just put the little amp in the effects loop and set it to dirty up the tone, while keeping the volume/noise down with the big amp. Basically, the volume on the little amp acts like a gain/dirt control, and the volume of the big amp acts like a master volume. Not orthodox, but in lieu of an amp with the right blend of volume and natural dirtiness, I do it, and it works. I had a line out installed on my Jet II. I hook it up in the effects loop of either my Reverberocket or my Super Rocket. A noise reduction pedal between the line out of the little amp and the line in of the big amp helps a lot.

Beat me to it... :dot:

 

[GuitarStv]

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Some pedals have stereo outs on them . . . you can use that to split your guitar signal to more than one amp. I've done it in the past with some Boss pedals and it worked pretty well.

 

[youngthrasher9]

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Thanks for the answers guys!

 

[guitfiddle]

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FWIW, the parallel inputs don't go through the preamp, so if you chain three amps, you'll just get another clean guitar signal from one into another. In those big chains of Marshall stacks, each one is getting a plain old guitar level signal, and then doing the preamp and power amp work for itself.

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: Question about low-watt amps-

FWIW, the parallel inputs don't go through the preamp, so if you chain three amps, you'll just get another clean guitar signal from one into another. In those big chains of Marshall stacks, each one is getting a plain old guitar level signal, and then doing the preamp and power amp work for itself.

Exactly. I "jump" from one amp to the other like that all the time when I use both my Jet II and my Princeton together. It's a very convenient way to feed two amps in a case in which you always want both of them going.

 

[youngthrasher9]

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Sorry to bump an old thread, but I thought of updated way to do this.

Guitar to little amp (with a signal switcher to go to either little or big amp), little amp fx send to big amp fx return. Would this work?

I love my Blackstar for everything but I think a little more gain on tap wouldn't hurt for any bone shattering doom riffs that I my find myself playing.

 

[youngthrasher9]

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Nevermind, I think an AMT amp simulator my serve my needs easier.