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*channels?


my peavey deuce has 2 channels which can also be combined, which is all sortsa fun. why don't all two channel amps have this option?

Sunn Beta Lead did this amazing well.

As much as I love my blackheart, and as much over kill as it was for a "practice" amp... I miss it desperately.

are those about the same era as the deuce (late 70's early 80s)?

Big fan of the jumpered inputs, here.

Trayor YBA-1s (weapon of choice) do this fantastically


Ampeg SVTs, too


Fender Twins


and of course, Marshall JTM45s


There's plenty of others, too...

gaybear wrote:are those about the same era as the deuce (late 70's early 80s)?

Yessir.

embarrassingly enough, i dont know what jumpered jacks are?

Whoops, where I come from, people say "jack" to mean "input".
Essentially, plugging a jack bridging the two channels on these two channel amps allows you to blend both channels' (bright/normal) high/low gain settings by means of seperate volume controls. I thought this is what you were referring to.

actually I'm jumpering my sovtek now. however the blended sounds suspiciously just like teh high channel.

Try plugging your guitar in the bright-high and jumpering the bright-low to the normal-high.

Anything?

laterallateral wrote:Whoops, where I come from, people say "jack" to mean "input".
Essentially, plugging a jack bridging the two channels on these two channel amps allows you to blend both channels' (bright/normal) high/low gain settings by means of seperate volume controls. I thought this is what you were referring to.

i'm not sure, honestly.
i guess i've never actually used blend, just combined.
por ejemplo, my deuce has 2 channels, 2 inputs. one input is normal, where i can switch back and forth from the pedal. the second input, called 'automix' allows me to switch channels, but also to have both on at the same time. does that make sense?

endsjustifymeans wrote:actually I'm jumpering my sovtek now. however the blended sounds suspiciously just like teh high channel.

Shit, do mig 60's have 4 inputs?
How are you doing this? Y Splitter?

gaybear wrote:i'm not sure, honestly.
i guess i've never actually used blend, just combined.
por ejemplo, my deuce has 2 channels, 2 inputs. one input is normal, where i can switch back and forth from the pedal. the second input, called 'automix' allows me to switch channels, but also to have both on at the same time. does that make sense?

Yeah, totally. I think the Automix function jumpers the channels internally instead of having to bridge them with a jack cord. Same thing, more efficient.

laterallateral wrote:

endsjustifymeans wrote:actually I'm jumpering my sovtek now. however the blended sounds suspiciously just like teh high channel.

Shit, do mig 60's have 4 inputs?
How are you doing this? Y Splitter?

no 2 inputs. I had mike build me a custom switcher taht does A/B/Y with built in saltboost. I then had to jumper the low so that it's always on, because normally when you plug into the high it shuts it off. so both the low and high have cable coming out running to my custom switcher.

Oh. That's pretty neat. Too bad blending doesn't make that big of a difference with your amp, though I guess this generally works better when you can control the channels' volumes independently.

laterallateral wrote:Oh. That's pretty neat. Too bad it doesn't make that big of a difference with your amp, though...

If I had sperate volume control I could turn down the high and shape it a little better. The problem is the high gain is so out of control demonic on the mig 60 that it totally over powers the low.

You can still here a difference, oddly it's a bit more bassy with both active, just not as colorful as I'd like it to be.

Maybe pop a volume pedal between the A/B/Y switch and the High channel?

laterallateral wrote:Maybe pop a volume pedal between the A/B/Y switch and the High channel?

Fuck, why didn't I think of that...

Know any cheapo volume pedals? Does behringer make one?

POW!

Looks cheap but set it, forget it, right?

love this thread.

i got a rogue volume pedal that sucks butt.