The inputs on old SVTs are also outputs???

[zachoff]

I mean to ask this, but I have a '76 SVT & played a gig last Friday. Sound guy said, "You just want to go direct from here?" and pointed at my amp. I said, this doesn't have a line out... I just mic it. Then he said the inputs are also outputs. Really? I've never heard about this. Is it the case?


Grrr... Crap. Meant to put this in amps. Sorry.

[dmusic148]

The inputs are wired in parallel, as they are on most amps. So if you plug your bass into one, you can tap it's signal from the other. No different that using a Y cable. Of course, the soundguy should have used a direct box, which renders all of this moot anyway.....

[s_mcsleazy]

will the same thing work on my bassman?

[Luckie]

Originally Posted by s_mcsleazy

will the same thing work on my bassman?

It sure should, works on mine.

[s_mcsleazy]

Originally Posted by Luckie

It sure should, works on mine.

yay

TAKE THAT SOUNDMAN

[zachoff]

Originally Posted by dmusic148

The inputs are wired in parallel, as they are on most amps. So if you plug your bass into one, you can tap it's signal from the other. No different that using a Y cable. Of course, the soundguy should have used a direct box, which renders all of this moot anyway.....

I prefer being mic'd in most cases, but yeah. Interesting...

[dmusic148]

Another common trick is to use the 2nd input as a tuner out. Try it.

[T-Bird]

Hi.

While using any parallell inputs in the way Your sound engineer described is perfectly possible and somewhat doable, no-one that I know would do that.

There's absolutely no benefit in doing so.


Regards
Sam

[jordie65]

So could i feed my sound from my Orange AD200B from the second input on the front (the active one) into another amp as an easy way to bi amp? would there be any sound or signal loss in doing this?

[Showdown]

Originally Posted by jordie65

So could i feed my sound from my Orange AD200B from the second input on the front (the active one) into another amp as an easy way to bi amp? would there be any sound or signal loss in doing this?

No, if your amp has an active and a passive input this won't work because those are separate inputs. On the amps they are talkinng about the two inputs are exactly the same, wired in parallel with each other. Think of it as one input with two jacks, as opposed to yours which is two inputs (one padded).

[coreyfyfe]

It's the same method you'd use for bridging the channels on these amps which got me thinking - could you use this as a pseudo-effects loop so that you'd have a clean channel and effected channel with independent volumes?

[Sartori]

Originally Posted by coreyfyfe

It's the same method you'd use for bridging the channels on these amps which got me thinking - could you use this as a pseudo-effects loop so that you'd have a clean channel and effected channel with independent volumes?

You should be able to, if you have an SVT or something with four jacks. To do it, I guess you'd just go from the other jack of one channel to your effects, and then to the input of the other channel.

[lbwdog]

Keep in mind that this method does not run through the preamp or eq. It's just splitting the bass's signal before any amp stage.
A true direct box would be better, but you can do this in a pinch.

[blastjv]

Yes, you can use it as a pseudo effects loop, you can also split your signal before the amp and send one clean signal to one channel and an effected signal to the other, or two different effected signals to different channels...etc...

-JV

[coreyfyfe]

Originally Posted by blastjv

Yes, you can use it as a pseudo effects loop, you can also split your signal before the amp and send one clean signal to one channel and an effected signal to the other, or two different effected signals to different channels...etc...

-JV

Yeah I've done that in the past, but I don't have that splitter now and I do have an excess of long cables I might give this a whirl and see how I like a clean/effected channel set up.