Running two amps at once.

[Racerxrated]

My experience was that the Bigshot sucked a bit of tone. The Twin Cities is much better in that regard, no tone suck. The Lehle is also great, no tone suck. Not sure about the ground loop issue between both products, never had any problems with the amps that I would run. Usually Marshall/Fender, and this was 5 years ago.

 

[MrDowntown]

Delays and chorus pedals with dual outputs, whilst splitting amps, don't alleviate grounds/phase??

 

[stephen sawall]

I like the Fulltone ABY

 

[HilltopExplosion]

Delays and chorus pedals with dual outputs, whilst splitting amps, don't alleviate grounds/phase??

There are no hum issues with my Electric Mistress. I run a Digitech tsr12 in the loop of amp 2 to add reverb ( or whatever other fx) I want. I'm using either a BE100 with an EVH 5153 or PV 6505+.. just mix and match any 2 of those 3 amps.

 

[GOHOINC]

I'm running a 5153 and a Plexi clone. Not Too interested in removing the grounding prong....if there's a guy that'll blow some shit up or get elecricuted, it'd be me !

I found another thread on RT about splitting 3 amps and was reading through it. The voodoo lab amp switcher....I believe I read in that thread someone was using that??

The bigshot will certainly work yo get started cheap. Using the ground lift alone should remove most of the noise from the rig i wouldnt use the iso switch though due to the tone suck. Youll also have the phase option should u need it. You may only experience phase issues with particular channels on your evh so you would have to switch manually for thT.If you want silent and perfect go for a lehle sgos i think most functions if not all are midi selectable.

 

[mchn13]

Delays and chorus pedals with dual outputs, whilst splitting amps, don't alleviate grounds/phase??

Nope. From the way I understand it, those problems are after or because you split the signal to two sources. There are dudes here that understand this shit way better than I. I messed with it for a couple years on and off, but didn't work for me till I ran the marshalls together(same gain stages), and lifted the ground on one. Now it's a huge slightly chorused Zack wylde-ish tone that is super simple.
I don't play anything like that, but that tone is useful for all kinds o shit.
Ground hum will.. hum..especially when your not playing, and like some one said above, you will lose half your good frequencies when it's out of phase/polarity.

 

[gokart mozart]

i used a boss ce-5, or a dd-3 on a t-verb halfstack and a 2203zw halfstack with no issues.

I'll 2nd the Boss CE-5 method. I used it in conjunction with a TC reverb pedal to run 2 amps and it worked fine.

 

[mojotone]

Cannot go wrong with Lehle. Spend the money with confidence.

 

[4406cuda]

I read Brad Gillis was running a Flange pedal with two outputs to a pair of Mark II B amps on Speak Of The Devil.

I have used a stereo chorus or delay several times with no issues.

It is worth a try.

 

[live4metal]

Yeah, as long as one output is transformer isolated and/or has a ground lift you should be fine on the hum issue, but you also need to be able to flip the polarity. Otherwise there´s a good chance half your tone disappears when you engage the second amp. I´ve mostly used Lehle products.

Lehle makes top quality pedals.
They're pricey though.

Best on the market - bar none. Lehle S-go-S. Nutso engineering - last a lifetime

This. I've been using Lehle SGOS for a year now. Perfect tone, perfect switching. They have some smaller/cheaper version also

 

[sg guy]

-BOSS CE 300 SUPER CHORUS-(rack mount)-

-had it forever, used it for a true stereo set up with every amp I've owned... Zero hum,... Zero ground issue,... Zero need to do anything but go from the LEFT & RIGHT outputs into your amps inputs...

 

[paulyc]

I did the chorus pedal (Boss) thing for YEARS with 2 Marshalls and never had an issue. I've also had a Furman PQ3 modded with 2 parallel output jacks with a Laney AOR 100 and a Splawn Pro Stock and that worked great too

 

[Racerxrated]

I did the chorus pedal (Boss) thing for YEARS with 2 Marshalls and never had an issue. I've also had a Furman PQ3 modded with 2 parallel output jacks with a Laney AOR 100 and a Splawn Pro Stock and that worked great too

Yeah, I played a festival 2 yrs ago and brought everything lol, and split my signal with a CE5. Worked well.

 

[BackCrack]

Mr.Downtown, are the input jacks on the plexi clone wired standard? If yes, then old school jack jumping between amps is an option.

 

[gokart mozart]

I did the chorus pedal (Boss) thing for YEARS with 2 Marshalls and never had an issue. I've also had a Furman PQ3 modded with 2 parallel output jacks with a Laney AOR 100 and a Splawn Pro Stock and that worked great too

Yeah, I played a festival 2 yrs ago and brought everything lol, and split my signal with a CE5. Worked well.

I always loved the depth that the CE-5 gives when running into two amps. I could sit and play nothing but open G & D chords using that rig all day long.

Here's a crappy iPhone video I did last year:

 

[MrDowntown]

Mr.Downtown, are the input jacks on the plexi clone wired standard? If yes, then old school jack jumping between amps is an option.

there are high and low jacks...if that is what you mean

 

[BackCrack]

Plug your guitar into the high input jack on the plexi clone. Take another guitar cable, plug one end into the low input jack and the other end into the input of the 5153. See what it does.

 

[MrDowntown]

That worked

Thanks

 

[reverymike]

Keep in mind, every time you add or subtract a gain stage on an amp, it'll flip the phase. So if you have both amps in phase and then switch channels on one of the amps, you'll likely flip the phase.

 

[dooredge]

My attraction to the Bigshot is that it is not a powered pedal. While it's not bad for the money, I did find some tone-suck when using the ISO or LIFT switches. The trick here is making sure you have a buffer in your signal chain before the amp.

I sold the Bigshot and have the Radial Twin City Bones and a Lehle Little Dual. I like both of these switchers and can't really say one is better than the other.