Tube and solid state

[Lite_rocker]

A friend and I discussed how it would be to run tubes and solid-state side by side. The chain will go guitar - Y-cable - tubeamp - Y-cable - poweramp.
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Now I wonder what you think about this

 

[alteredbeast]

Re: Tube and solid state

Edit: thought op was talkin' bout something else. I have nothing helpful to contribute haha.

 

[Chickenwings]

Re: Tube and solid state

a regular "y" cable will halve the load. Get a buffered Y or ABY box so you get a full guitar signal running to each amp, rather than half.

 

[Lite_rocker]

Re: Tube and solid state

This is still in the planning stage. Buffered Y-Cable or ABY-Box I'll check it out.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Tube and solid state

a regular "y" cable will halve the load. Get a buffered Y or ABY box so you get a full guitar signal running to each amp, rather than half.

I will add to that: the ABY should have a phase switch, too, because the output stage of one amp may have a different phase than the other. The Radial ABY is a great unit with a lot of useful features.

 

[Edgecrusher]

Re: Tube and solid state

When you wrote "tube amp" did you mean "tube preamp"? If not why not just split the signal to the tube amp and let it have its own output and speakers instead of slaving it to the tube power amp. Then just run your stomp box into the power amp and its set of speakers. That way you can mix and match speaker tones too if you want.