Slaving amp - what type of cable needed?

[Scott Ians Beard]

Taking my univalve to practice tonight, its usually fine for volume. Got a different drummer today though. If I need to slave it into a poweramp, I presume I only need an instrument cable? Or does it need a speaker cable?

 

[OneArmedScissor]

The whip kind?

 

[bunghole]

The whip kind?

god dammit

beat me to the race joke

of course, I was gonna say "a black one"

but still

 

[MrDan666]

Just an instrument cable from the slave out/FX send of the main head, into the FX return of another amp head or input of a poweramp!

 

[blackba]

What is the benefit of slaving versus just using a biamp setup?

I don't have a power amp, so if I ever slaved, I would be going into the preamp of my 2nd head (unless I was using one with an effects loop)

 

[AmpliFIRE]

barbed wire?

 

[mysticaxe]

What is the benefit of slaving versus just using a biamp setup?

I don't have a power amp, so if I ever slaved, I would be going into the preamp of my 2nd head (unless I was using one with an effects loop)

The benefit of avoiding the second preamp is that you don't get the gain/eq from the 2nd head. You are basically just increasing the volume of an already cranked head. That being said, going into the input may work for you...