Help needed planning a two amp rig for alt rock. TIA!

[inadaydream]

Hey guys! So I’m trying to plan out my rig to incorporate a second amp. I currently run a HH telecaster into my board (see pdf attachment for the board) and then through a Fender BDRI 1x12 tube amp with a Fat Jimmy speaker upgrade. I play alternative rock/emo a la Radiohead meets Brand New, and I want to get a second amp to fatten my tone, as I’m the only guitarist.

Here’s what I’m thinking, and please let me know if this sounds like a good idea or let me know where the flaws in this design lie: for the second amp I’d get either a Traynor YCV40 or a Marshall DSL40CR, depending on which has a better drive channel for my purposes. I would get a Radial Bones Twin City A/B/Y splitter. I imagine the signal chain being Guitar > compressor > volume > ABY box (one output going straight to the Marshall/Traynor and the other output to the rest of the board > pitchfork > fuzz > OD > chorus > phase shifter > trem > delays > reverb > second trem > Fender amp.

The idea I’m going for is to use the fender alone for clean parts, and for heavy parts blend the sound of the Fender amp with drive pedals and the Marshall/Traynor amp’s unaffected drive channel. Kind of like a wet/dry setup but with drive pedals on just the wet side, and without the effects being fully 100% wet on the wet amp so that it sounds more like two guitarists playing the same part with one of them using semi-wet effects.

Does this make sense? Am I missing something/are there any issues or flaws with this idea? Any help would be appreciated! And if you have any input on which amp would be a good complement to my fender bdri let me know, even if it’s not one of the two I mentioned above. Thanks guys!

 

[skullfxr]

Too much to set up. Pain in the ass. Been there. Done that.

I see more and more strengths to my Riviera K100. Really nice fender cleans, big ass Marshall drive in one head.

It doesn't add the second guitar feel to it nothing will. But it covers nice cleans and nasty gain.

 

[sleewell2]

Agreed. Sounds sweet on paper but is a nightmare to setup and troubleshoot live. Get one good amp. It's alt rock lol, the last thing you want is an overcomplicated stereo setup. No one would notice if it sounds good, but everyone will see the problems which are much more likely in setups you described. .

 

[japetus]

Agreed with the sentiments above. You are just complicating it all too much. If you want a bigger stage sound, get another 1x12 extention cab and put it opposite side stage from you.

 

[skullfxr]

sleewell2 has a whole other point, troubleshooting would be hell if you were to have it go down.

Keep it as simple as possible on a gig do yourself a favor.

When I was younger I would run a full rig, everything perfect, etc but as years went by I cut out what I did not need. I go basic and simple and still sound good and get the job done. I realized that I didn't need four OD's to get through a set. Recording yes for pleasure yes, but to haul it all to a gig? Hell the fuck no.