Hey stereo rig users! (bassist especially)

[Jero]

Just curious what you guys that run stereo are using/how you have it set up?

I split my board the other day to run modulation and absynth to my univox while running od,fuzz,octave,od to my sunn. Been finding this to be very useful; seems these two amps compliment eachother well (even when clean). The absynth>univox in parallel with the magnetar>sunn is just unreal. So happy.

[sonidero]

Paging Dr. Donny...

[Adoom]

I'm so far from a bassist it's saddening, but I am running stereo lately, and really having fun with it.

I'm running a stereo looping rig.

My 'live' violin chain, which just consists of a wah, dirt pedals and delays, runs into and out of my Boomerang, into my ol' 10w combo.

The Boomerang splits just the loops into a half stack, between which sit a dirt pedal, a HOG, a Tremolessence and another delay, and in future this is where I'll be putting other other stuff I might like, like phasers, Sonic Crayon goodness and all those nice things.

Just before the Boomerang is an El Capistan, so after I've laid down any loops into the Rang, which solely comes out of the 4x12, I can lay down a separate loop to come out of the combo, and leave that playing whilst I mess with effects on the main looper. It can get pretty nice.

My buddy just started running a stereo bass rig, a Warwick and a Fender Rumble making some hefty, hefty sounds. I'll be keeping an eye on this thread to forward any advice/ideas he comes up with. Monster player, so he is.

[theavondon]

I've been using the two outputs on my tuner to split out to different amps. Actually, what I've been doing is the output from my TU-3 goes to a rusty box, which goes to two different amps's effects return jacks, and then the bypass goes to my roommate's 200W Univox. That way, I have three amps, running a lot of cabs. And, if I need to mute everything, I just hit the tuner on my M9, and everything goes quiet. I've never split effects into different amps though...but my friend Dave does, with the TU-2's different outputs going into a HAO Rust Booster and then a Prescription Electronics Experience fuzz, and then both going into two different 370s, into 4 15's each. And, he has an old green Big Muff going into the tuner. Pretty sick.

[Derelict78]

I split my pickups to two outputs. Mainly so I can change volume and tone from my bass to either cab.

[sonidero]

Tuners as splitters... Pickups as splitters... I thought I was being cheeky using delay pedals to split...

[cheesecats]

i just have all my pedals running mono into a pn-2 split to 2 amps. that way there are no phase cancellation issues and I get a nice wide sound from small tone differences in the amps.

[Chumley]

My band does a lot of recording at my high school, so once in a while we'll run every amp we can get our hands on at the same time...

I think a janitor shouted at us last time we tried that. >.>

[Jero]

You guys are using some crazy set ups!
I got so caught up in putting stuff after each out of my splitter, I didn't even think about putting something before it good call

Gonna go re-arrange. Will report back.
this might be fun in the meantime...how would you set up my stuff?
The constants - Univox>Kustom 2x15, Sunn>Bassman 2x15
Absynth
Wolf cpu
Magnetar
Behemoth II
Mountain Range
OC-2
OC-07
Disaster Transport
DD-3
RRR
Small Stone (nyc)
Small Stone (green)

[snipelfritz]

I haven't run stereo for a bit, but for a while I was messing around with it. It's lots of fun, I just love getting the "fullest" sound I can.

I'll either use an ABY or I'll use my delay running the bypass into my Carvin half-stack (soon to be a Fender something or other), and then run the delays into my Vox with an extension 2x12. I used to have all my effects on the main, Carvin line except for an MXR classic fuzz into the Vox and the on-board trem set super deep and a bit of reverb. It sounded really cool too. I just got too caught up in the atmospheric stereo thing and felt like I needed to strip things down a bit.

[devnulljp]

Other than different effects or different sounds out of different amps, what's the point of running a bass in stereo?
Those frequencies are omnidirectional so you're not going to get a proper stereo image anyway

[Jero]

Other than different effects or different sounds out of different amps, what's the point of running a bass in stereo?
Those frequencies are omnidirectional so you're not going to get a proper stereo image anyway

Often times, I use my bass unconventionally I play solo a lot, as well as guitar, and disconnect the split to use the univox half for noise/atmosphere/drones. Live, I'd likely not run quite all that.

[aen]

ooooh! I just got my stereo rig figured out. So my chain all comes into the boss tuner. Then the two outputs go to
A) boss loopstation>twin reverb
B) Line 6 dl4 (set to looooper mode)> GK bass amp.

loopstation line can be turned off by engaging the tuner, so as my bass tones dont destroy the twin.

*edit*

I use both amps for Baritone and standard guitar, just the bass amp for bass.

[rfurtkamp]

Not much of a bassist, but it's fulltime stereo although different than what I used for years since i added a guitar synth last year.

Assuming synth guitar (GK-3 lives full-time on my Jaguar),



That's the flip the power strip switch, plug in the Tonebender (battery only), plug in, play rig.

If not synth guitar, I've been known to split the echo/no echo off of the Timebender to the Jazz Chorus.

Rig subject to change, I can swap in a dozen other rack units or a couple dozen pedals if I have to.

[Shish]

I just started using stereo, mainly because I have some stereo effects and they are so much better in stereo than in mono.
I don't split effects between amps so all my chain goes in mono and then I have Boss Slicer->Strymon Timeline->Strymon Blue Sky->Boss RC-50->SWR and Genz-Benz. I'm also adding Line6 FM4 after Slicer.
Now I'm tempted to try to split effects between amps and see what happened