what are some good amps that blend or combine the two channe

George · Post by **George** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:38 am

What would also be useful is to make a list of amps that blend really badly. In my limited experience...

Fender HRD and Blues Deluxe
Sound City 30C
Bugera V series (from what I gather in Reece's review)

gaybear · Post by **gaybear** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 7:29 am

GeorgeF wrote:What would also be useful is to make a list of amps that blend really badly. In my limited experience...

Fender HRD and Blues Deluxe
Sound City 30C
Bugera V series (from what I gather in Reece's review)

I thought the HRD didn't really blend. It just has 2 channels, and one can be overdrive or more overdrive. that said, the over drive is awful, but i made good use of it combined with pedals.

Post by **Doog** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:51 am

My solidstate Laney World Series 120H head has an Aux/Mix input for mixing the two channels.. and I guess for plugging an auxilary input into one channel and a guitar into the other.

Post by **Mike** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:18 am

Vox AC30

Gabriel · Post by **Gabriel** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 1:23 pm

Mike wrote:Vox AC30

I blend the two channels on mine sounds amazing

the normal channel provides the balls whilst the top boost gives the sparkle

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:01 pm

all this and no one's made a
"Will it blend?"
joke...

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:20 pm

I thought about it briefly last night... Even looked around on the net for "will it blend" style videos involving amplifiers.
Found a really shitty offshoot called "Is it a good idea to microwave this" which got me so depressed I just drank myself to sleep, watching a schmaltzy documentary on Transhumanism.

Ankhanu · Post by **Ankhanu** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:31 pm

Had no idea I could jumper my Twin. Just gave it a go and it does add some girth... and the vibrato gets a little more swell to it.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 9:47 pm

Ankhanu wrote:Had no idea I could jumper my Twin. Just gave it a go and it does add some girth... and the vibrato gets a little more swell to it.

Fender amps with reverb/vibrato have the channels out of phase because of that channel's extra gain stage to compensate for the verb circuit's signal loss, so you can't jumper them normally. A lot of people do it anyway but it's not the same thing as when you do it on a Marshall or certain Bassmans (it actually doesn't work on some Bassmans either, there's a lot of different types).

The newer AC30C2s have the feature built in as a switch I believe, and the Vintage Modern Marshalls had the "body" (II, bass) and "detail" (I, trebz) preamp controls meant to be reminiscent of using jumped channel volumes to shape the sound.