Reamping vs. Slaving vs. Clean/Crunch setup?

[Kapo_Polenton]

Trying to find best way to set up my rig for massive tones now that I got a hold of one of those G Major II units. This is what I have / will have in my posession:

Hotplate
Lynch Box
G Major II
JCM 800 combo
4 x12

I was thinking the best way to go would be "wet" running through the Randall and then out to the 4 x 12 + a chorus pedal splitting the signal with one side going into the low input of the JCM800. This way I'd have a clean signal being pumped out of the combo to acheive that crunch/clean type sound that you hear on songs like Slaughter's Up All Night. ( you can hear the clean work over the distorted, makes it sound rich)

OR

Do I just slave the signal from the hotplate out into the input (because has no efx loop) of my Marshall and run it dry while the 4 x 12 stays wet?

OR

Slave from the Randall wet, into the low/high input of the Marshall and have the combo of
and 4 x 12 pumping out wet tones? I'm thinking it might get messy this way because i have no way of going direct to the power amp of the Marshall.

I'm actually not sure that if I use a hotplate, the signal out will be anything but the wet but I thought I would ask seeing as you guys have experience with setting up rigs.

Thanks.

 

[degenaro]

If the fx are in the loop of the Randall then what comes out of the HP will have fx.

If you just want to add the JCM as a dry clean amp split the signal before the Randall with the Chorus and run on out into the JCM the other into the Randall.

Wet/dry you usually add the fx after the fact. i.e. you'd run the Hot Plate off amp 1 and then send the HPs line-out into fx into amp 2. Also I'm no fan of running a line out level into the front of an amp although it is workable. I'd have a tech install a power amp insert into the JCM.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

Doing some research, it would appear as if my best option is to do as you mentioned.. that or get a power amp. I've got an old Laney gutted right now that i have been meaning to do a circuit into.. might bennefit from installing an effects loop in it as well so I can bypass the preamp. All this music $hit ends up costing big bucks eh? We can always use something else it seems.