two heads, two cabs question

Rocks · #1 08-11-2010, 01:20 PM

Hi,
I've been thinking about using both my heads and cabs at larger gigs and was wondering if I could use my pedal tuner (or other pedal with two outputs) to send the guitar to two different heads. Would this cause ground loop problems or anything else to worry about?

I was also considering taking the effects loop out on one head and feeding it into the second head but figured it best to ask before experimenting with gear I can't afford to replace/repair.

strke-fender · #2 08-11-2010, 01:27 PM

If a pedal has a stereo outs it will work, I've run stereo out of pedals lots of times and never had any grounding problems

The effects send trick I've never heard of, but assuming it runs at instrument level I cant see why it wouldn't but don't take my word for it.

voodoobassist · #3 08-11-2010, 01:36 PM

I've done the fx send and it does work, although it seemed a little noisy to me. Tonight I'm running my aggy 500 into a bag end single 15 and also running my Roland CB100 combo alongside it. I'm using the stereo send from my Boss DD-20 to split the send. It definitely cleaned the signal to the Roland up a bit. My aggy is needing a trip to the shop to clean up some issues it's having, so that may very well be why the fx send sounded a bit strange going to the Roland. Hope that helps.

Rocks · #4 08-11-2010, 01:42 PM

I got two things I may try at practice Friday. One is using a fender pedal tuner I have that has two outputs. The other is to use the tuner output from one head to feed the other, I can use the active bass input and adjust the gain from there to make sure I don't overload the input. Sound good?