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Changing output to stereo?

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LAW

Jun 23, 2005
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Hello all. I recently bought a 60th anniversary MIA jazz. This now makes my Ibanez GSR200 useless to me. I'm wondering if it is possible to rewire my Ibanez into a stereo output so that I can bi-amp it. I don't really plan on using it that much anymore so I want to use it for experiments. Anyone know what kind of legwork would be needed for something like this?

Thanks
 
#2
Passively, it's easy. Just wire each pickup same as a Pbass and connect to jack(s). If there is a pre, then it usually can't be done easily the way most are implemented.
 
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LAW said:
The Ibanez has a pre-amp. Does this make it impossible?
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Only if
1) you want to keep the pre, or
2) you're capable of redesigning it.

Most budget basses sum the two pickups together before they go into the pre, so you either need to ditch it or design and build a new one.
 
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LAW said:
The Ibanez has a pre-amp. Does this make it impossible?
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You could maybe try running one pickup through the pre and one bypassing it entirely? Are you looking for a clean/dirty split with pickups, or ? "Standard" biamping doesn't require a stereo feed, so I assume you're looking for something a little different, right?
 
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JonathanD said:
How is that? I may be missing something, probably am, but using your description(as I understand it) a P bass is already biamped.
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Huh? It has a split pickup that sums to one output. It doesn't have any amps involved at all, in and of itself. So how is the bass itself biamped? Apologies if I was unclear somehow, but I do think you misread me. ;)

I see biamping as having the lows go one place the and highs go another.

That's exactly what I was getting at.

The standard iteration is that there are two amps, and one or more speaker cabs for lows and one or more speaker cabs for highs. The crossover in front of the two amps is typically fed by a mono signal, and the crossover sends highs and lows independently to the appropriate amps.

I think the OP is probably looking for something like the Ric-O-Sound implementation though? With that, you send each pickup to a separate amp, or to separately EQ'ed or effected channels of the same amp. That means you could control distortion blend just using the volume knobs on your bass, for one example.
 

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