2 Blender Pedals?

[Racermech]

Reading over the forums and doing searches shows me that the Barge Concepts VFB-2 is an incredibly popular pedal more mixing in distortions and overdrives, and keeping some good clean tone.

I thought I would propose a bit of a scenario that might get some people to chime in suggestions.

I am a bit of an effects head and have run a bi-amp setup for a little bit, running clean tone to a smaller combo amp and effected tone to a larger amp/cab setup. Luggin around the gear was interesting, and playing with mixes was a little dicey too.

My thought is essentially to have clean tone underlying everything, a bit of distortion and grind mixed in for constant flavor, and then various modulation, pitch, etc effects as the loudest and most prominent feature.

This is where things get interesting running with a single amp. I have read posts about phase issues with mixers. But running a blend loop inside another blend loop seems complex and expensive. What would everyone suggest?

Would you run a ABCY splitter to all the effects then mix the signals in, then run it into the amp?

or

Would you run a clean/effected blend with distorted/modulated blend inside the effected blend?

or

Carrots?

[pickles]

Barge does custom work, just figure out what you want and see if they'll build it for you. I got a twin VFB-2 without the feedback controls:



It is one of the best gear purchases I've ever made, and very reasonably priced.

As you can see, I run the second blend full wet, but I just had them add the blend because it only added a few dollars and is there for flexibility. I just wanted two buffered true bypass loops, one blendable.

[bongomania]

Another option is to use a small mixer. It's not a guaranteed perfect solution because of potentially non-optimal input and output impedances, but on the plus side it allows you to combine multiple channels of audio and mix them down to one channel if you like, often with multiple other outputs available (to FOH, a second amp, etc.).

[TheMutt]

Check out this thread for more info on some more custom Barge Concepts VFB's that other TB'ers have gotten if you haven't already. I am seriously loving mine!

[joelc1319]

Originally Posted by pickles

I just wanted two buffered true bypass loops

contradiction? haha I understood what you meant though

[Bob C]

pickles,

That's a slick setup. I notice you also have the Radial Big Shot. Is that just to have a separate tuner out? Or does it figure into the rest of the loop scenario, somehow?