The speaker outputs are in parallel, so you're fine using the second speaker output rather than putting it in-line. It's effectively the same thing.
(I do the same thing with an IR loader I use at gigs.)
This is one of those amps I've had a few times ... and wish I'd held on to. The OD channel is fantastic.
I do wish the clean channel on the Duel had evolved to be a little more useful- I found it too bland to use for anything. Imo, being able to switch the Hi/Lo inputs would have been more...
Hah- I was just watching a recent vid of them in the studio. There's my Guytron, sitting behind Simon :)
Buddy of mine is their tech, so I leant it to them for the sessions. I had a chance to spend some time with them during rehearsals which was pretty cool.
It's a modeler.
It is pretty sweet. I ditched most of my pedals a while back and have been using the HX Stomp for effects in front of the amp, plus a MIDI controller for everything. Does just about everything fairly well.
I almost always play through an amp, but I do have some patches setup...
Steve rests (or used to) his pinky on the pickguard to anchor his picking hand. The original prototype didn’t have a guard and he found he missed the extra height, so they added a clear one.
I always bring a handful of spare tubes to a gig, but there's not much chance of being able to diagnose any issues until I was between sets. I think you'd have to know your amp well enough to get a sense of what's wrong. If I had to narrow it down quickly (on a dark stage), I'd check to see if...
I have a 1x12 I use primarily for rehearsing. It really is great. Sounds big and the dispersion is excellent. (Though, I gig with a regular 2x12 with a plexi dispersion shield in front of it and it's also excellent, so there are other ways to solve that problem.)