Stereo rigs? What to take into consideration?

JackBootedThug said:
Man I want an 8x10 bad bro….found an old fender 2x15 but dude kinda pissed me off so I’m 50/50 on it.
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I used to have a stable of Ampeg 810CLs. It's funny what "Ampeg guys" think is desirable sometimes. I had some good ones. Ones that everyone says are great ones. Never a Blueline though. In the end I shut my band down and whittled it down to one SVT and one cab. I picked the one that stayed based on how it sounded. When I got it narrowed down to two it was between a 2015 Heritage, made in Pa. I think. The last of the American made Ampeg 810s and a 2006 "Dark era" ( supposedly undesirable as the drivers sounded, wait for it, too dark) chipboard cab with zero tolex on it, a grill cloth that I have attached with a pair of drywall screws and "Eat Shit stenciled on it. Guess which one I thought sounded better ?


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Floyd Eye said:
I used to have a stable of Ampeg 810CLs. It's funny what "Ampeg guys" think is desirable sometimes. I had some good ones. Ones that everyone says are great ones. Never a Blueline though. In the end I shut my band down and whittled it down to one SVT and one cab. I picked the one that stayed based on how it sounded. When I got it narrowed down to two it was between a 2015 Heritage, made in Pa. I think. The last of the American made Ampeg 810s and a 2006 "Dark era" ( supposedly undesirable as the drivers sounded, wait for it, too dark) chipboard cab with zero tolex on it, a grill cloth that I have attached with a pair of drywall screws and "Eat Shit stenciled on it. Guess which one I thought sounded better ?


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I dig that bass. Is that a brass bridge and nut? What model Spectre is it, etc?
 
Shask said:
I looked at many of the other solutions like the little Rolls mixer, or the RJM Micro Mixer, but I keep coming back to the fact that you have to have a way to split the send to the units, and you need a way to control the on/off of the loops because you cant put most pedals in a mute bypass state. The Parallelizer is one of the only ones I have found that can do all that.
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This was one of the reasons I got a red seven mslm. Can split, mix and mute all in 1 unit. Not friendly on space of course being a rack unit
 
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Maguchi said:
I don't know, to me running in stereo means more time tweaking and adjusting and less time playing.
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I guess it depends on the rig.

In my experience If I run one main amp, and use the FX loop to split it with a second amp slaved via the fx return, then there's only the volume knob, and the presence knob that would be dialed in on the second amp. The loop return if there is one would be at 100%.
 
saxxamafone said:
This was one of the reasons I got a red seven mslm. Can split, mix and mute all in 1 unit. Not friendly on space of course being a rack unit
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Yeah, I have a Samson SM-10 Rack Line Mixer that does well at this, but was considering pedalboard friendly solutions.
 
JackBootedThug said:
I need to check into a mixer….
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It definitely helps with high gain to keep the signal cleaner. You can just blend in bits of modulation, delay, and reverb on top of your main tone, instead of having a big wash of mush.

Keeping the analog dry through also means your main tone dont get changed. Many digital units digitize the through signal, which changes the feel and tone of your core tone.
 
My set up is janky as fuck but damn it sounds like Armageddon in my boom boom room… I have never actually cracked the volumes up crazy loud because it would probably hurt physically….🤪
 
Floyd Eye said:
I used to have a stable of Ampeg 810CLs. It's funny what "Ampeg guys" think is desirable sometimes. I had some good ones. Ones that everyone says are great ones. Never a Blueline though. In the end I shut my band down and whittled it down to one SVT and one cab. I picked the one that stayed based on how it sounded. When I got it narrowed down to two it was between a 2015 Heritage, made in Pa. I think. The last of the American made Ampeg 810s and a 2006 "Dark era" ( supposedly undesirable as the drivers sounded, wait for it, too dark) chipboard cab with zero tolex on it, a grill cloth that I have attached with a pair of drywall screws and "Eat Shit stenciled on it. Guess which one I thought sounded better ?


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Nice pedal.
 
One option would be running this without a stereo power amp and run the IR signal instead into time based effects in stereo and then into the SSL2+ and into Genelec G Three monitors.
 
At home love it, yes a mixer it key, Im using a 3ch Rolls. Phase is a pain in the ass so watch your pedals and how they create stereo out. TC is notorious for just flipping the phase on one side..
 
I diagram my w/d/w rigs out,then I document my changes to them thru years.
I've been fortunate to actually run w/d/w live and it's a thing of beauty and very difficult to go back to bland mono when it's tweaked and running properly.
You asked about powering cabs:
S.s.power= less tonal coloration
Tube power = puts some of it's DNA on your cabs,which I dnt mind at all.
 
Do You use mixers for both L and R signals in case of a stereo rig? Stereo mixer would be needed, right?
 
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