My first experience with biamping

[protoz]

Earlier this week I picked up a Bass Big Muff from Simon Langley here on TB and figured I'd give the dry output a spin tonight.

After adjusting volumes on both amps and getting the big muff to sound right I was hooked. The biggest problem I had to figure out was why the dirty side still had some clean to it. I forgot to change the dry switch to bass boost and then I was off. Volume was a bit hard to manage in my apartment. I kept wanting to turn them up to get the full effect.

The only thing that could beat this is if I used my rick-o-sound and tri-amped it!

Here was my test setup

Amp 1 - Dirty
80s Sunn Coliseum 300
Sunn 215

Amp 2 - Clean
1968 Sunn Sorado
GK 1x15 I put an Eminence Kappa into.

The Sorado gets a sweet overdrive sound when it's pushed so I left it clean for when I wanted that sound. The Coliseum 300 is clinically clean and could use some dirt.

I'll be picking up a 2x10 or 2x12 soon so maybe I'll try that tri-amp idea with my Sunn 300T as well.

[lbwdog]

If I'm understanding you correctly, this is not bi-amping. Bi-amping is when you utilize n active crossover to separate the low and high frequencies before feeding the signals to two power amps, each dedicated to the chosen frequency.

[Rick Auricchio]

+1. It might be considered stereo, or probably multi-amping.

[RickenBoogie]

Stereo sounds right, but definately not biamping. Though I can see how the term might be confusing, since you're using 2 (bi) amps.

[koobie]

Yeah, like it's already been noted, what you're doing is not bi-amping, but running two amps in a clean/dirty setup. Some guitarists send the effected or 'wet' signal of their delays/reverbs to a second amp, can make a huge improvement in clarity & scale. Your experimenting sounds totally cool, keep us posted how it goes.

[ColinGWood]

I would have called that bi amping too.

Is there a stombox crossover that splits the frequency to send to two amps? because if so, consider me GASing!