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A+B box?

Brendan

Brendan

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Jun 18, 2000
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Portland, OR
#1
I guess this can go here. I'm looking for a box that can take one signal, and then send it to two locations without degrading the quality too much. Doesn't need to be switchable, just a one input/two output box. That's basically, it, but I don't know if there's a specific name for that to search for, or just have to look for A/B boxes and DIs until the right one comes along?

I imagine it might not be too hard to build one?

edit- http://www.loooper.com/ The ABY box...is this what I'm looking for, or am I missing something?
 
#3
Brendan said:
I guess this can go here. I'm looking for a box that can take one signal, and then send it to two locations without degrading the quality too much. Doesn't need to be switchable, just a one input/two output box. That's basically, it, but I don't know if there's a specific name for that to search for, or just have to look for A/B boxes and DIs until the right one comes along?

I imagine it might not be too hard to build one?

edit- http://www.loooper.com/ The ABY box...is this what I'm looking for, or am I missing something?
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The A/B/Y box will do the trick.

If you have any music stores around that carry a lot of used stuff, they may have a Morley A/B/Y box. I see them all over the place for $20. I bought mine at a garage sale for $1.:D
 
#5
A simple splitter will do the trick. I prefer it over a Y cable because they come undone. Go to Radio Shack, buy a small plastic enclosure and three mono 1/4 jacks. Solder tip to tip and sleeve to sleeve, drill holes in the box and viola. About $7.00 for your solution.
 
#6
tplyons said:
A simple splitter will do the trick. I prefer it over a Y cable because they come undone. Go to Radio Shack, buy a small plastic enclosure and three mono 1/4 jacks. Solder tip to tip and sleeve to sleeve, drill holes in the box and viola. About $7.00 for your solution.
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And the ground loops are free!!!!
 
#7
tplyons said:
A simple splitter will do the trick. I prefer it over a Y cable because they come undone. Go to Radio Shack, buy a small plastic enclosure and three mono 1/4 jacks. Solder tip to tip and sleeve to sleeve, drill holes in the box and viola. About $7.00 for your solution.
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Yeah, I was talking with Wrong Robot (that was incidental) about doing that. $10 at Radio Shack, and I'd be good to go, and soldering ain' hurt nobody. My only question is would that somehow effect the quality of the signal? I mean, I'm not talking audiophile quality here, but would it be a noticable drop in my signal quality?
 
#10
I've got a question pertaining to this.

If I were to want a clean signal and dirty signal at the same time, could I do this?

Bass-->Cord-->Y Splitter-->Clean Signal and other jack Dirty Signal

And then put a loooper or somethign to control every thing on the dirty signal so when I hit the loooper, it will turn EVERY PEDAL in the dirty signal off? Maybe a Micro Loooper?
 
#11
Petary791 said:
I've got a question pertaining to this.

If I were to want a clean signal and dirty signal at the same time, could I do this?

Bass-->Cord-->Y Splitter-->Clean Signal and other jack Dirty Signal

And then put a loooper or somethign to control every thing on the dirty signal so when I hit the loooper, it will turn EVERYPEDAL in the dirty signal off?
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Easy way to do this, kinda expensive I guess:
Signal -> Y-cable -> dry signal -> Amp
..................|
..................V
...............Looper -> Clean channel -> Amp
..................|
..................V
........Distortion of choice
..................|
..................V
................Amp

Ray
 
#16
Petary791 said:
Aw shucks.

Well thanks for the short answer! :cool:
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There is a way to do it with one amp, though. You'd need a stereo preamp (with two channel silmultaneous output) a power amp and a stereo cab.

I'm pretty sure, since most preamp outs are instrument level, you could put a some effects between the preamp out of the preamp, and preamp in of a power amp, and not have the signal get lost/degraded terribly.

The stereo cab would be a bitch. You see it fairly often in guitar cabs, being wired stereo, but you almost never see them in bass cabinets.

So, short of those three components, there'd be no way to do it with one amp.
 
#17
Petary791 said:
I've got a question pertaining to this.

If I were to want a clean signal and dirty signal at the same time, could I do this?


I use a Boss LS-2 pedal. Have one distortion pedal run through one loop (A). Have anything else run through the other loop (B). Then output to your Amp. Set the pedal to A+B. Then when you want distortion step on the distortion. It is added along with your clean signal. Or have the distortion on all the time, and step on your LS pedal. Whichever you prefer to stomp on.
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#18
C-5KO said:
I use a Boss LS-2 pedal. Have one distortion pedal run through one loop (A). Have anything else run through the other loop (B). Then output to your Amp. Set the pedal to A+B. Then when you want distortion step on the distortion. It is added along with your clean signal. Or have the distortion on all the time, and step on your LS pedal. Whichever you prefer to stomp on.
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But isn't that precisely the effect of a distortion pedal in normal operation (i.e. after the instrument), and without the seperate signal loops?
 
#19
Brendan said:
But isn't that precisely the effect of a distortion pedal in normal operation (i.e. after the instrument), and without the seperate signal loops?
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You sort of lost me now. I find with my distortion, sometimes the lows roll off or sometimes the highs lose definition, depending on the pedal settings. So with having two channels running in the line selector, it lets one blend as much as the "original" signal vs the "effected" signal - without having to worry about lost highs or lows, or whatever may be the situation. Clean + Envelope, Clean + Distortion, Distortion + Envelope (which sounds different than Distortion to Envelope) series vs parallel, etc, etc.

Not sure if that's what he's going for or not....
 

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