I've been an educator for 24 years. I recognize excellent teaching when I see it. You sir, are an excellent teacher! You have the unique ability to make complex ideas seem relatively straightforward without talking down to those you're teaching. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. This was an excellent video tutorial!
I rarely ever respond to videos and such, yet this clip, is clear, concise and provides you with all one needs to know about adding a second amp to your rig. If only more of these so called “educator’s” did the same. Well done!!
I wasn’t expecting that guide to getting bass tones on a guitar without a bass player but it’s pretty handy for me bc of a how scarce musicians are in my area so I might end up having to use that method, thank you! This whole video is helping so much.
I started playing around with stereo rigs over covid. Wish I would've seen this vid before I started. I run into an AC15 and a Fender Twin/Pro/or Blues Jr, and sometimes 3 amps for kicks. I have to say, it makes everything sound 3 dimensional and opens up so much better at low volumes. I can never go back to just one amp. Thanks for the tips which help bring it all together.
Yes! Been running a Blues Jr for the wet and clean while running a Pro Jr for the dry and dirty. The combo of 12&10” speakers is awesome. It’s also good to have a second amp (that’s easy to transport) in case of any failures.
Thanks for the video just dipping my toes into the world of running amps in stereo and this was the most clear and easy to understand explanation I have found.
I’ve watched so many videos, some over an hour long trying to figure out how the heck to set this up. I should have just watched your 10 minute video from the start and been done! Thank you 🙏
Great advice/content. I purchased my first guitar in 1974 and haven't looked back since. I've found that the amplifier choice and diversity is much more important than what kind of guitar you use. I'm not playing out anymore, however my current rig is an old Plexi paired with a Twin Reverb I've had since 1976. Not a fun rig to move around, but for home recording it is the best of both worlds. Like I said, amplifier and speaker choices are perhaps the most important decisions you'll make concerning your final tone.
I had an orange amp but bought some Marshall headphones - so I was bound to order their amp; it arrived yesterday and I thought 2 together - you just made me realise what the other output in my Mooer box does, for once life smiled at me. Todays practise will be interesting.
So, the effects loop in the amps are not being used, in any of these examples. This is all a bit confusing. I have the ABY, with 2 amps, but I'm having a hard time getting true stereo, even with that. If the delays and modulation are in front of the one amp, fuzzes and overdrives aren't going to sound very good. Thanks for the information.
11:00 this is the method I use to support a seven amp stereo rig. The dry signal goes out from a stereo chorus pedal, the signal is split again through stereo delay and reverb pedals, then the wet signals go out from a boss rc-505 mk2 which has six amp outputs! I also use all bass amps for the clean headroom since I get distortion and compression from pedals.
Brilliant demo for a potentially confusing subject. Thank you. With the Orange Amps Detonator, you mention connecting the dry amp to the A output. Is that because the wet amp needs the isolated B output? Thanks.
What about running multiple strymons in stereo with you effects loop on one amp and ping pong on second amp? I can’t find a video or diagram explaining this at all. Is it possible to even truly use the effects loop anymore? How?
I dream of one day bringing 10+ 100w stacks into someone’s bedroom while they are sleeping, plug in, and turn it up to 10 on every amp. I bet if the person is small enough, and you set the cabinets up just right, you can get them to float in the air after they jump out of bed from the shock.
I love that you said that one had to have identical amps to run a stereo setup, and then just went with two completely different amps. I run a Fender Deluxe Reverb Tone Master, and a Roland Blues Cube Hot in true stereo (Neunaber Immerse Reverberator), with the Fender set super clean and the Roland a bit on the edge of breakup. Sounds amazing. I also run a wah after the pedal board and only into the Roland. Makes for good and fun times.
V That was brilliant and informative thank you. I'm wanting to use two combo amps at Live gigs (a Vox and a Blackstar) but use them separately and not simultaneous. The Vox for my jangley sound and the Blackstar for my more sonic and lead guitar. I'm still a bit confused though in that will I actually need an ABY pedal with phase and isolation switches if I'm only using them separately? Cheers
imlostinthewoods; and I are retired teachers LOL!! How do you use the Quad Cortex and the GT1000 together? I'll send you a "CUP OF COFFEE!!" if you can figure this out! EEK, watching your videos I am looking at one of my students!
I'm recording into two JFet DI pedals a Crunchy Fender about Malcolm Young Crunch but a fender with pedals strymon and fuzz for extra gain and delays Before the DI the next Channel a Cranked Plexi with Delay and reverb Going after the DI giving me two Channels. Stereo with one take. This will work for my amps as well. But Im here for a sereo rig I want the option of both amps solo or stereo.
In W/D setup, does the ABY switcher creates a signal/tone/volume loss as compared to direct to amplifier sound? or if for example a 30-watt amp will split into a 15-15 each? Great explanation and demo Btw.
I can't decide between my two processors...so I'm going to use both. In parallel . Wet dry sorta set up..but also utilizing multiple amps at times...sometimes as much as 4 amp models.
For the funniest multi-amp setup, watch the J Mascis rig rundown. 2 Marshall and a HiWatt stack with a Twin because he likes the "tone". When I saw him 30+ years ago it was just Marshalls and a box of Overdrives.
great video! Just a quick question. I have a Boss DC-2w, that has two inputs and two outputs. If I was to use an ABY box, how would I hook up the DC-2w to have the stereo effect? Would each "to amp" on the ABY box be sent one to the input A and one to input B on the effect pedal, then from the pedal, each out would go to each amp?
What if your using amp emulation or modeling? Do u need a phase switch? Like say you have a line 6 multi fx on one side and a boss on the other...both running dual amps. Will you need a phase switch or will the modeling units keep things in phase themself?
Hi...thank you for all...can I use the effect loop on my too Amps with a Aby pedal ? I don't want to put my wet Effects on the front. I want to be able to have too Amps with a dry/wet Signals.
i want to split my guitar going into my pedals and amps AND i also want a dry signal going into my audio interface. would this be better or would a DI box be better?
I have a 50w Plexi and a 50w Silver Jubilee handwired clone amps. Can I connect both these amps to my 4x12 cabinet and blend the sound together? How exactly would I wire that? Both my amps can do 4/8/16 ohms, and my cabinet does 4ohm mono, 16ohm mono, or 8ohm stereo. I'd like the tones to be blended. What about my effects? Would I put my pre-amp effects like overdrive and wah in front of the Plexi, and then all my other effects like reverd and delay in the FX loops of the Jubilee? Thanks!
Question about wet/dry setup. In other schemas I have seen that line out from dry amp is used to feed the signal to wet effects. In case I would use an amp switcher, it would feed distorted signal to the wet effects,wouldn't it? But I think wet effects need clean signal?
I was wondering, I have 2 marshall MG100HCFX head and cabs, and when plugged into my Ernie ball stereo pan/volume pedal, it has a loud buzzing. Would this be the ground loop you're speaking of? I'm rather new to this dual setup and want to find the proper way to cancel out that noise so I can use my stereo setup.
Great info.. I am looking for an amp switcher with specific capabilities.. i was wondering if you had something that would complete this configuration successfully.. I am looking for an amp switching type product that will let me switch between two STEREO output guitar amps that I need to use with just two speaker cabinets (run in stereo).Is there any product in your line that will do that? Thank you..
When running stereo amps into a mixer, should you hard pan each amp left and right? Or blend the volumes. (This is for normal stereo signal with two diff amp tones and not a wet/dry setup)
I read somewhere about billie joe armstrong using two amps. One with higher gain for crunch and one with lower for more clarity. One was mid heavy and one scooped but I can’t remember which was which
Can I use stereo setup with pedalswitcher? Or do I have to use wet/dry setup then? I would like to have delay, reverb and chorus in one amp and other pedals in another amp.
Some multi-effects pedals have two outputs; could you theoretically use this as a way to connect to two amplifiers at once (acknowledging that you can't easily switch one off with a foot tap)?
How do you change channels between two guitar amplifiers at the same time? I run an ABY pedal but I don't want to use two different amp foot switches to change their channels.
I've been an educator for 24 years. I recognize excellent teaching when I see it. You sir, are an excellent teacher! You have the unique ability to make complex ideas seem relatively straightforward without talking down to those you're teaching. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. This was an excellent video tutorial!
Hear, hear! He did a fantastic job.
I rarely ever respond to videos and such, yet this clip, is clear, concise and provides you with all one needs to know about adding a second amp to your rig. If only more of these so called “educator’s” did the same. Well done!!
It took me 10 videos prior to this one. Most RUclipsrs really know how to waste other people's time. It's a shame
I wasn’t expecting that guide to getting bass tones on a guitar without a bass player but it’s pretty handy for me bc of a how scarce musicians are in my area so I might end up having to use that method, thank you! This whole video is helping so much.
I started playing around with stereo rigs over covid. Wish I would've seen this vid before I started. I run into an AC15 and a Fender Twin/Pro/or Blues Jr, and sometimes 3 amps for kicks. I have to say, it makes everything sound 3 dimensional and opens up so much better at low volumes. I can never go back to just one amp. Thanks for the tips which help bring it all together.
Same here- running dual Orange AD15 amps with stereo tape delay.
Yes! Been running a Blues Jr for the wet and clean while running a Pro Jr for the dry and dirty. The combo of 12&10” speakers is awesome.
It’s also good to have a second amp (that’s easy to transport) in case of any failures.
Thanks for the video just dipping my toes into the world of running amps in stereo and this was the most clear and easy to understand explanation I have found.
This is a superb video - clear, thorough and yet concise enough so as not to be overwhelming. Excellent stuff, thank you.
The sounds ur getting are sick...making me excited to expirememt.
Great video, very very helpful! Subscribed.
Confession - hiring two 4x12 Marshalls just for the look. I only did it once but every guitarist should do it at least once.
Excellent video.
the single most useful video of that topic.. absolutely masterclass 👍
Super helpful my friend! Here’s to you. 🤘🏼🤘🏼
This was delivered in the best way possible. Hats off!!
I’ve watched so many videos, some over an hour long trying to figure out how the heck to set this up. I should have just watched your 10 minute video from the start and been done! Thank you 🙏
Same. Most RUclipsrs suck
fantastic . ive just lost a while day using two amps and a dd3
Fantastic Video!!!
Awesome, thank you!
Thank you very much, I was wondering how to do this and you explained everything so well! Cheers
What a great video. Cheers.
Great advice/content.
I purchased my first guitar in 1974 and haven't looked back since.
I've found that the amplifier choice and diversity is much more important than what kind of guitar you use.
I'm not playing out anymore, however my current rig is an old Plexi paired with a Twin Reverb I've had since 1976.
Not a fun rig to move around, but for home recording it is the best of both worlds.
Like I said, amplifier and speaker choices are perhaps the most important decisions you'll make concerning your final tone.
This is one of the best tutorials I've ever seen. Thanks for the post.
I love his voice. I could hear him talk all day
Excellent video. Really cleared the basics up for me.
Thank you so much for the isolated output tip
I had an orange amp but bought some Marshall headphones - so I was bound to order their amp; it arrived yesterday and I thought 2 together - you just made me realise what the other output in my Mooer box does, for once life smiled at me. Todays practise will be interesting.
one of the better videos around this topic I've seen - good looks mate
Thank you for showing me how the stage musicians get that beautiful full sound!
GOD BLESS YOU, MY SON!!!! GREAT VIDEO
Great tech explained succinctly! Bravo! 'Alan
Very informative, thanks for this
Excellent, informative video and super guitar licks.
So, the effects loop in the amps are not being used, in any of these examples. This is all a bit confusing. I have the ABY, with 2 amps, but I'm having a hard time getting true stereo, even with that. If the delays and modulation are in front of the one amp, fuzzes and overdrives aren't going to sound very good. Thanks for the information.
Another top video. Very helpful. Question is now Stereo or Wed/Dry? Should be fun trying these out.
Great job of covering different scenarios. I learned a couple tips from you video.Thanks 👍
What a class!
Wow thanks! That was super informative.
Great explanations Sir. Thank you hugely.
Best YT of how all this works yet. Kept simple and for the Bed Room Jammer!
Fantastic tutorial video!
Great Video, thanks a lot for this little lesson :) FR
great vid! Clarified a lot of questions I had.
Best explanation yet. Thanks heaps.
Thanks! Very clear explanation!
11:00 this is the method I use to support a seven amp stereo rig. The dry signal goes out from a stereo chorus pedal, the signal is split again through stereo delay and reverb pedals, then the wet signals go out from a boss rc-505 mk2 which has six amp outputs! I also use all bass amps for the clean headroom since I get distortion and compression from pedals.
"maybe you think your hearing is over rated" haha that made me laugh xD
Great breakdown.
Really practical, clear video.
Brilliant demo for a potentially confusing subject. Thank you. With the Orange Amps Detonator, you mention connecting the dry amp to the A output. Is that because the wet amp needs the isolated B output? Thanks.
Thanks for your help bro!!😀👍
What about running multiple strymons in stereo with you effects loop on one amp and ping pong on second amp? I can’t find a video or diagram explaining this at all. Is it possible to even truly use the effects loop anymore? How?
Maybe I should use a wall of Marshalls as an alarm clock for my neighbor.
I dream of one day bringing 10+ 100w stacks into someone’s bedroom while they are sleeping, plug in, and turn it up to 10 on every amp. I bet if the person is small enough, and you set the cabinets up just right, you can get them to float in the air after they jump out of bed from the shock.
Great video. Thanks!
I love that you said that one had to have identical amps to run a stereo setup, and then just went with two completely different amps. I run a Fender Deluxe Reverb Tone Master, and a Roland Blues Cube Hot in true stereo (Neunaber Immerse Reverberator), with the Fender set super clean and the Roland a bit on the edge of breakup. Sounds amazing. I also run a wah after the pedal board and only into the Roland. Makes for good and fun times.
Thank you for this useful info.
Amps sound amazing in the intro
you are my guitar hero, thanks for the music porn. you are stupendous at explaining things in laymen's terms. now i must absolutely buy more gear.
Really awesome tutorial, great, thank you :)
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That was brilliant and informative thank you. I'm wanting to use two combo amps at Live gigs (a Vox and a Blackstar) but use them separately and not simultaneous. The Vox for my jangley sound and the Blackstar for my more sonic and lead guitar. I'm still a bit confused though in that will I actually need an ABY pedal with phase and isolation switches if I'm only using them separately? Cheers
imlostinthewoods; and I are retired teachers LOL!!
How do you use the Quad Cortex and the GT1000 together? I'll send you a "CUP OF COFFEE!!" if you can figure this out! EEK, watching your videos I am looking at one of my students!
Great job!
I miss seeing a wall of Marshall's. You knew you were in for a good time. Atleast the likes of Malmsteen still uses a wall.
Well done. I use some of these strategies already, but you've given me a couple of new ideas to think about as well.
I'm recording into two JFet DI pedals a Crunchy Fender about Malcolm Young Crunch but a fender with pedals strymon and fuzz for extra gain and delays Before the DI the next Channel a Cranked Plexi with Delay and reverb Going after the DI giving me two Channels.
Stereo with one take.
This will work for my amps as well.
But Im here for a sereo rig I want the option of both amps solo or stereo.
In W/D setup, does the ABY switcher creates a signal/tone/volume loss as compared to direct to amplifier sound? or if for example a 30-watt amp will split into a 15-15 each? Great explanation and demo Btw.
Thanks a lot for the information.
I can't decide between my two processors...so I'm going to use both. In parallel . Wet dry sorta set up..but also utilizing multiple amps at times...sometimes as much as 4 amp models.
For the funniest multi-amp setup, watch the J Mascis rig rundown. 2 Marshall and a HiWatt stack with a Twin because he likes the "tone".
When I saw him 30+ years ago it was just Marshalls and a box of Overdrives.
great video! Just a quick question. I have a Boss DC-2w, that has two inputs and two outputs. If I was to use an ABY box, how would I hook up the DC-2w to have the stereo effect? Would each "to amp" on the ABY box be sent one to the input A and one to input B on the effect pedal, then from the pedal, each out would go to each amp?
@PMTVUK
So, in your wet/dry rig example, the timeline will be run only in mono not stereo?
Excellent, well explained, so easy to understand!👏👏👏
What if your using amp emulation or modeling? Do u need a phase switch? Like say you have a line 6 multi fx on one side and a boss on the other...both running dual amps. Will you need a phase switch or will the modeling units keep things in phase themself?
Hi...thank you for all...can I use the effect loop on my too Amps with a Aby pedal ? I don't want to put my wet Effects on the front. I want to be able to have too Amps with a dry/wet Signals.
i want to split my guitar going into my pedals and amps AND i also want a dry signal going into my audio interface. would this be better or would a DI box be better?
When using a bass amp and Micropog, do you try to set the bass amp at the same volume as the guitar amp?
I have a 50w Plexi and a 50w Silver Jubilee handwired clone amps. Can I connect both these amps to my 4x12 cabinet and blend the sound together? How exactly would I wire that? Both my amps can do 4/8/16 ohms, and my cabinet does 4ohm mono, 16ohm mono, or 8ohm stereo. I'd like the tones to be blended. What about my effects? Would I put my pre-amp effects like overdrive and wah in front of the Plexi, and then all my other effects like reverd and delay in the FX loops of the Jubilee? Thanks!
Question about wet/dry setup. In other schemas I have seen that line out from dry amp is used to feed the signal to wet effects. In case I would use an amp switcher, it would feed distorted signal to the wet effects,wouldn't it? But I think wet effects need clean signal?
Hello, I have a question…
If I plug 2 amps into 1 AB y pedal, can I plug that into another AB y pedal to connect another amp, totaling 3 amps??
I was wondering, I have 2 marshall MG100HCFX head and cabs, and when plugged into my Ernie ball stereo pan/volume pedal, it has a loud buzzing. Would this be the ground loop you're speaking of? I'm rather new to this dual setup and want to find the proper way to cancel out that noise so I can use my stereo setup.
Great info.. I am looking for an amp switcher with specific capabilities.. i was wondering if you had something that would complete this configuration successfully.. I am looking for an amp switching type product that will let me switch between two STEREO output guitar amps that I need to use with just two speaker cabinets (run in stereo).Is there any product in your line that will do that? Thank you..
Where does the aby switch sit in terms of pedal order? I have a pedalboard with a looper as the last pedal. Any help greatly appreciated
When running stereo amps into a mixer, should you hard pan each amp left and right? Or blend the volumes. (This is for normal stereo signal with two diff amp tones and not a wet/dry setup)
I read somewhere about billie joe armstrong using two amps. One with higher gain for crunch and one with lower for more clarity. One was mid heavy and one scooped but I can’t remember which was which
Pete, the more mid gain plexi, is mid heavy
Meat, the higher gain one, is scooped
Multiple Amps!! DOORS Hollywood Bowl!! The fire marshall shut them down!!
Please can you explaine for us slaved amp. You explaine very goooooood
How would you pan 2 guitarists both using dual amps, for live or for a studio recording?
AMP B@ 7:45 has a nice 60hz hum.
Whats the best method to connect multiple stereo output pedals
will that orange ABY box work with a bass guitar running 1 amp for low end and one amp for highs and distortion??
11:35 How could I connect the chorus to fx loop of both amps in case the pedal has only one in? Thank you
Can I use stereo setup with pedalswitcher? Or do I have to use wet/dry setup then? I would like to have delay, reverb and chorus in one amp and other pedals in another amp.
Some multi-effects pedals have two outputs; could you theoretically use this as a way to connect to two amplifiers at once (acknowledging that you can't easily switch one off with a foot tap)?
yes
Excellent demonstration ❤
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How do you change channels between two guitar amplifiers at the same time? I run an ABY pedal but I don't want to use two different amp foot switches to change their channels.
I was really hoping this video showed a 4 cable method on 4 amps lol.
Can you use a Boss Fs-6 for this?
can you use 2 Identical amps with 1 footswitch?like a black spirit 200 head,can you control 2 of them using 1 footswitch?thanks
can i use aby pedal into two amp simulator pedals to achieve this?
Good video, but did he just say Mayer isn’t known for using pedals to shape his sound?
4 Amp rig Wet/ Dry /Stereo setup?
What about having a wet/wet rig?