Parallel processing--who's doing it?

[Gone Fission]

I'm talking beyond clean blends, beyond splitting from your stereo pedals to dissimilar amps. Anyone run different dirt pedals, different modulation, different delays, different reverbs in parallel to each other? Different amps or just mixing the sounds back together?

I'm considering ways of trying to use more of the hoard and looking for ideas.

[Iommic Pope]

I want to move towards this once funds permit.

Summit is doing this, I know. Some other dudes.

[LaoWiz]

I made a crud jfet splitter/mixer box a couple of years ago and it's fucking great. Mixes two signals together from different chains. Really awesome layered sounds, extremely inspiring.

I really like some fuzz and ring mod mixed with some fuzz and octave down, through in some delays, sample and hold, filters in the mix and things get apeshit. Really really fun.

There's that company, Wounded Paw, that has some good shit on the market. Do it...

[fishtankdork]

on the bass out of my rc300 i plug my ampeq head and stack into with some pedals in between the chain. the rc300 is in an effects loop of a marshall dsl. essentially the bassout is more bassier and umphier and adds a whole new texture, even tho the marshall is driving it so when mixing diff effects it really stands out in loops. this is just really loud bedroom playing though.

[Jakezor]

What is involved in mixing the two chains back to the amp? Say my amp only has one input.

[jrmy]

When recording, hell yes all the time. For live... I'm working on it. Experimenting with just using a Boss TU-2 as a splitter between boards and amps. Still in the early stages, but I will sure as hell be posting if it comes to anything permanent.

[jrmy]

What is involved in mixing the two chains back to the amp? Say my amp only has one input.

You'd need some kind of powered mixer with a master volume out to make sure the combined chains don't screw your amp, from what I understand. That said, there are some super-small ones out there - I think Behringer has one that's as small as a pedal. In fact, per Pope's mention above, I believe it was Ryan Summit who hipped me to it.

[lordgalvar]

Anybody used one of these?....It has been on my "maybe list" for quite a while. http://www.ebay.com/itm/281470806528

[ThurberMingus]

I don't currently do this, nor does my life have the infrastructure to, but I would love to run a really nice sounding reverb like an RRR or a DigiTech or whatever parallel with a super grimey verb like the RM-N1 or even a Holy Grail.

[kbit]

Anybody used one of these?....It has been on my "maybe list" for quite a while. http://www.ebay.com/itm/281470806528

That looks awesome! I would love to have something like that.

[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

What is involved in mixing the two chains back to the amp? Say my amp only has one input.

You'd need some kind of powered mixer with a master volume out to make sure the combined chains don't screw your amp, from what I understand. That said, there are some super-small ones out there - I think Behringer has one that's as small as a pedal. In fact, per Pope's mention above, I believe it was Ryan Summit who hipped me to it.

dis one? http://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audi ... line-mixer

[DannDubbleEwe]

I have used the Boss LS2 for some awesome parallel blending. The DOD Death Metal + Megalith combo was insane. Sub octaves in parallel with any fuzz works magic too. This thread is making me want to break out the dusty LS2 and experiment again.

[jrmy]

dis one? http://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audi ... line-mixer

Dat's da one!

I have used the Boss LS2 for some awesome parallel blending. The DOD Death Metal + Megalith combo was insane. Sub octaves in parallel with any fuzz works magic too. This thread is making me want to break out the dusty LS2 and experiment again.

Yeah, the LS2 opens up some great options. I may have that going inside the line of one of my parallel rigs. Maybe.

PARALLELS INSIDE PARALLELS!!!!

[misterstomach]

I used to do this, running to two amps. Seperate effects chains. It was awesome. Towards the end, I was really just running dirt on one side and the other side got a seperate dirt plus delay and reverb. I could crank the verb and delay a bit more on the one amp than I normally would and it blended nicely with the dry side. Very nice effect. And I loved having two complimentary dirt sounds. Sounded massive. I wasn't going for crazy swirly lost in space kind of sounds like most people around here would do, but it was fun. Being a broke loser forced the sale of one of the amps, so that was the end of that. I'd love to get back there sometime.

[John]

Boss LS-2 is cruce for ease of doing this.