Drive one amp with another?

Mattsican · Post by **Mattsican** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 6:27 am

A guy i work with wants to run his tube amp into a solid state head somehow... for god knows why... But after thinking about it i figured he may be able to run the effects send from tube amp A into the effects return of solid state amp b??? basically using the tube pre then solidstate power amp? bad idea? I told him i'd ask some people who may know more than i do.

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 7:04 am

yeah, it's ok.

some amps actually have dedicated slaving jacks as well. my laney tony iommi amp had that. iommi slaves i think 7 heads off of one running separate stacks, so it's all getting preamp from the one head and just powering the stacks from the others.

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Fri Mar 01, 2013 11:52 pm

You could also use a dummy load box.

I could see the point in this. I mean, my Marshall Class 5 sounds like God, but it's 5 watts. If I had a power amp to get the same tone but louder, I would need no other amp.

Brandon W · Post by **Brandon W** » Tue Mar 05, 2013 6:53 pm

Kurt did this right? The mesa preamp (amazing) into a crest or a crown. They were advertising the little fender greta amp to be used as a preamp. I think it's ok also. I'm curious how it sounds.

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:41 pm

I just found out about this.

http://www.badcatamps.com/unleash.html

This is music to me... my favorite amp that I have is my AC4C1... you can see where I'm going with this.

Mattsican · Post by **Mattsican** » Tue Mar 05, 2013 8:21 pm

thing looks slick as hell. Id definitely have no use for it ever, but i can see it being a sweet thing to mess with.

Ankhanu · Post by **Ankhanu** » Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:45 pm

Mattsican wrote:thing looks slick as hell. Id definitely have no use for it ever, but i can see it being a sweet thing to mess with.

Concretebadger · Post by **Concretebadger** » Tue Mar 05, 2013 10:06 pm

I've considered an attenuator for studio work because theoretically I could find the 'sweet spot' on my amp and set that spot at any volume I wanted. Even at five or ten watts a valve combo's still really sodding loud for your living room though, so I don't know how useful that would be in reality. Still, if I were playing live and able to take some of the crazy volume off my F-50 Boogie the sound guy would appreciate it. It's an absolute beast and I've no idea how it sounds as loud as it does, and we all know how inconsistent small live venues are.