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Okay guys I need some advice before I potentially waste a lot of time, effort and money on cabling my board. So the part of my signal chain that matters goes like this:

Ultimate Tremolessence (stereo) > Pitchfactor (stereo) > SDD (mono) > Skrecho (mono) > Space (stereo)

So not to mess up the signal chain by swapping pedals around to change the arrangement so that the stereo pedals all run concurrently into each other, would it be possible to wire Output B from the Pitchfactor directly into Input B of the Space (bypassing the two mono delays)? Would this allow me to run the Trem and PF in full stereo glory without having to change their order in the mono signal chain? Anyone see any problems with this? Any advice would be much appreciated.

I'm pretty sure that would work just fine, except one of your amps may not get any signal from the delay pedals.

OR you could have output a from the pitch factor go to one delay and output b to the other delay, then both outputs of those to the Space.
But then they would be in parallel instead of series, and you'd have to have both on to get delay in both amps.

kbithecrowing wrote:I'm pretty sure that would work just fine, except one of your amps may not get any signal from the delay pedals.

OR you could have output a from the pitch factor go to one delay and output b to the other delay, then both outputs of those to the Space.
But then they would be in parallel instead of series, and you'd have to have both on to get delay in both amps.

Hmm.. more trouble than it's worth? So if nothing goes into input B of my Space, with input A carrying the standard mono signal, and outputs A and B go to the respective amps, I'll get delay in both amps? But once there's a signal into input B the signal paths divide into two separate channels instead of merging and splitting evenly into both A and B?

I mean, they could merge and split, but I don't really know. I've never tried out a space before.

You could test it by just going pitchfactor->SDD->Space with output b of the pitch going directly to the space, then run it in stereo and see if you get delay in both amps.
Less cables than your full board but the same kind of signal path.

Will do, thanks a huge bunch!

Post back on what the outcome is

kbithecrowing wrote:I'm pretty sure that would work just fine, except one of your amps may not get any signal from the delay pedals.

OR you could have output a from the pitch factor go to one delay and output b to the other delay, then both outputs of those to the Space.
But then they would be in parallel instead of series, and you'd have to have both on to get delay in both amps.

this is all correct

Trickier, and possibly without the desired results, would be integrating some sort of small mixer. I figure you need two sends or a stereo send bus for the two mono delays, the returns from which can be returned to the mixer's two (panned as appropriate) before a stereo out to the Space.

More of a pain then most people will want to do -- especially when the cost of the mixer plus the trade-in value on the mono delays might even add up to a Timeline or such.

I'm running into similar issues (I have stereo pedals but not all my stereo pedals have two inputs so I can't chain them together). Please post an update on what you find out! I actually think I might try some sort of mixer for everything to go into and then the mixer will feed two amps. Not sure yet... but I do love stereo pedals and will eventually buy more of them!