Does anyone else on Earth do this???

[JetBlackJazz]

I have a tc elec. bg500 115...i also have a digietch grunge as a dist pedal. Nice sound despite all the idiots who down it. But sometimes the dist would get way too bassy. I would turn up the treble and it sucked all my bass somehow (not a master of bass tech). So i found my old 15 watt guitar combo amp lying around...i had heard of people splitting into a clean and dirty channel. So i did some messing around... I plugged my bass amp into the amp out of the grunge pedal and the guitar amp into the mixer out. Problem solved. No bass loss and my dist goes into both but my bass amp holds my bass and mids...the guitar amp holds my crunchy hi mids and treble together. So for the last 9 hours (until now,) ive been in distortion nirvana anyone else do this or something similar?

[Toastfuzz]

Bi amping? I think someone here might have tried that one before

[JetBlackJazz]

Originally Posted by Toastfuzz

Bi amping? I think someone here might have tried that one before

so thats what that is..............................................

[billfitzmaurice]

Originally Posted by JetBlackJazz

anyone else do this or something similar?

The first I'm aware of was Chris Squire, circa 1968.

[silky smoove]

If possible, I would split the signal before it hits the distortion pedal. Send the clean signal to your bass amp, and the distorted signal to the guitar amp. I'd either add a high pass filter to the distortion side, or use an active crossover to split the signal, and eliminate the high pass fitler.

[JetBlackJazz]

Originally Posted by silky smoove

If possible, I would split the signal before it hits the distortion pedal. Send the clean signal to your bass amp, and the distorted signal to the guitar amp. I'd either add a high pass filter to the distortion side, or use an active crossover to split the signal, and eliminate the high pass fitler.

i like the distortion on both my low freq bass amp and hi freq guitar amp....or else i get a boomyness with a thin dist. sprinkled on top. i like them both sort of melding together. Without the gtr amp, its too deep/notenough trebly grind, without the bass amp, its thin and too guitarish... make any sense?

[rodl2005]

Oh right.

[silky smoove]

Originally Posted by JetBlackJazz

i like the distortion on both my low freq bass amp and hi freq guitar amp....or else i get a boomyness with a thin dist. sprinkled on top. i like them both sort of melding together. Without the gtr amp, its too deep/notenough trebly grind, without the bass amp, its thin and too guitarish... make any sense?

If you run your bass straight into your bass amp, is it too boomy? If so, the boomyness isn't coming from the pedal, it's coming from your bass amp.

[esa372]

Originally Posted by billfitzmaurice

The first I'm aware of was Chris Squire, circa 1968.

Entwistle was doing it by '67, if not before.