Splitting blended signal, reuniting later

[Oreomeister365]

Heres a situation:

I have a barge blender, so I currently use it to blend in a distorted channel, then that goes to all my other effects then to my amp.

My question is: is there any way to have the gritty channel be reunited with my signal after all my effects? Key here being that instead of having the distorted channel blended in then be included in my effects, it is sorta like having a a little clean signal underneath the effects (but in this case, a distorted signal), realizing that when the effects are off it represents my clean channel. So essentially the dirty channel is run parallel to the clean/fx channel, rather than having the clean/dirty blend run into the fx channel together.

So, is it possible to use some combination of a blender and some device to reunite the signals later so I can still control how much of the signal I want going down to the fx and how much I want running parallel and reuniting after the fx? It's like if you ran two amps, one with all your fx and one with a distortion on all the time, the fx only go to one amp, the distorted amp is always constant, not mixed into the effects.

Hopefully people can make sense of that...

[speak_onion]

You want a Boss LS-2. Distortion in Loop B, all others in Loop A. Switch between A and A+B.

[OhThePeacock]

Dirtbox->A/B/Y box (to split your signal)->effects-->a Y cable to make you signal mono.
==============================\_>Blender/

Or you could skip the Y cable and run stereo amps, either way would work. (ignore those equal signs, it would show up right withought them.)

EDIT: The LS-2 thing would work equally as well.

[bongomania]

Skip the Y cable regardless, Y cables are not for mixing, only for splitting. You need a two-loop blender.

[speak_onion]

Or Robot Facotry DualParaBlend.

[Oreomeister365]

Originally Posted by bongomania

Skip the Y cable regardless, Y cables are not for mixing, only for splitting. You need a two-loop blender.

But wouldn't one loop run right into the other? The LS-2 seems to be the best option because it has the two loops completely separate of each other, I can put the dist one one then all the effects in the other, then you can blend those levels, sending all that to the amp...not having any of the loops run into each other. Assuming I'm running it on A+B mix mode at all times since I want the the blend happening all the time.

Hmmmm...makes me wish my LS-2 didn't break in 15 minutes.

Edit: okay now I realize when you say two loop blender that I could do exactly as I described about the LS-2 but I'm not trying to do two different blends, I want to actually blend the ratio of the two loops, which I suppose barge could customize for me...

edit two: okay I think I understand exactly what I'm looking for (basically an LS-2...), a two loop unit that blends the ratio of the two loops together.

[cheapbasslovin]

you could just get/ make a true bypass switch and use that in conjunction with your current blender. Or get a LS-2 and save some space.

 
Split->Distortion----------------------->Blend>Amp.
     \-->Bypass switch-->------------->/
         \>Effect-->effect-->EffECt-->/