Clean Reinforcement?

[JereFuzz]

Hello folks,

Perceived volume from the distortion channel on a dual clean/distortion channeled amp is much louder. What's your thoughts on reinforcing your clean channel with another amp? I'm thinking that using an ABY switch along with two amps would be great. Not only could you reinforce cleans but you can also add different effects to each amp and create some pretty insane soundscapes for the clean sections of songs. Of course, place some FX before the ABY box and you can apply the FX to both amps simultaneously. Do you know of any bands, guitarists that reinforce cleans?

Regards,

JereFuzz

[John]

Neurosis.






Plus everybody else.

[JereFuzz]

Neurosis.






Plus everybody else.

Everyone else huh? The only problem with my proposed scheme is the tap dancing you'll have to do to make the whole thing work ...

[aeonrevolution]

Have you ever just ran stereo and left the one amp clean at all times? Kinda sounds cool. Adds a weird layer in there.

[JereFuzz]

Have you ever just ran stereo and left the one amp clean at all times? Kinda sounds cool. Adds a weird layer in there.

Yeah, with multiple amps/effects you can really start getting spacy ... I'm trying to get an steel drum/Guzheng sound by using choruses, flangers, reverbs, and EQs ...

[John]

Neurosis.






Plus everybody else.

Everyone else huh? The only problem with my proposed scheme is the tap dancing you'll have to do to make the whole thing work ...

Sorry I just meant that there are a ton of examples that I'm sure other people will post here. Anyway it's not a lot of tap dancing, just use an A/B/Y.

My rig is stereo and I have a different type of distortion on each side. When I bring in the dirt on one side, the punch and clarity is still coming through the other set of speakers, and then when I bring that side's gain in too, buckle the fuck up!

[HeavyXIII]

Neurosis.






Plus everybody else.

Everyone else huh? The only problem with my proposed scheme is the tap dancing you'll have to do to make the whole thing work ...

Sorry I just meant that there are a ton of examples that I'm sure other people will post here. Anyway it's not a lot of tap dancing, just use an A/B/Y.

My rig is stereo and I have a different type of distortion on each side. When I bring in the dirt on one side, the punch and clarity is still coming through the other set of speakers, and then when I bring that side's gain in too, buckle the fuck up!

Yeah, Steve Von Till uses multiple amps and various pedals into various channels for a variety of clean and dirty sounds. He had a special switching system put together which name escapes me at the moment. Apparently his setup is really flexible, because Scott switched from a single JCM setup to one that mirrors Steve's multi-amp rig.

I'm utilizing a 2 amp system as well, but I'm running 2 versions of the same thing. They're both relatively clean, but I'm pushing the power section harder on one and the pre a little harder on the other, in addition to using slightly different amp EQ settings. I really enjoy it, even if it's not entirely necessary.

Lot's of options available.

[rfurtkamp]

I've got 3 amps on tap in my normal practice/recording rig. Balancing volume is relatively easy - set it up once, go.

I also have a master (shared) board that feeds everything, plus individual stuff that goes to different amps in the chain.

Lets me go discrete clean+mean (or any combination of that), or layer enough variable distortion to maim.