| Connecting L/R mixer output to amp input
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Hi there,
I have been searching both on talkbass and many other areas for the solution to the issue at hand, and just can't find the answer!
So I play bass guitar as well as key-bass (Novation K-Station) and keyboard in my band. I have always used an amp with two inputs, one for the bass, one for the Novation, and then the keyboard goes into either another amp or the PA.
Well, my rig is in the process of getting an upgrade, and the head is going to be a GK MB500, which of course, has ONE input. Well, there are multiple ways of getting my two instruments mixed down into the one input on the amp, I know - various pedal/direct box/small format mixer products will probably doe the job. So I'm thinking, how about the Mackie 402-VLZ3? Nice tiny little mixer that could do the job. And as some of you have suggested already, my two inputs go in, and output would be LEFT and everything panned to the left.
Then I'm thinking, well, while I have a mixer capable of L/R, why not use the L/R out of my Novation to get a better/fuller sound out of it, and then I might also be able to plug in the other keyboard's L/R if there's no other amp source around, and give it its own EQ separate from bass - could work?
BUT THEN comes the problem. How to I get the L/R output from the mixer to the instrument input of the bass amp??
Oh yeah...and both the Novation and bass guitar have to sound at the same time, so something like the Bassbone won't work (I don't think) because you have to stomp on it to switch between the two sources.
Am I over-complicating things? Is there some ridiculously simple answer that I'm just missing? Does anyone else have a similar setup? Any suggestions or insights you have would be awesome.
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Warwick Thumb NT Fretless, Novation K-Station
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