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Guitar Doubling Live

I am in the same boat as you. In the trio format we tackle hits all of the time that had much more instrumentation.
If you can create your own version of a song and folks like it that's all that matters. (In fact bands do it all of the time)

T Scholz admitted MTAF was lifted from Walk Away Renee ....
I'll respond to this post...I know there's been many of this flavor. This is a viable path except.... the guitar player is throwing out good songs because of the rhythm guitar parts during solos. If we had to, he would rather play to a backing track part which I'm not a fan of.

I do use a Micropog and it did not occur to my thick brain to split the signal. We are somewhat limited on the board for another signal, so I need to look into that. If I could split the high part of the octave and dirty that up, seems like it could be the poor mans solution for me. I currently run ampless and play through a Tonex. I do have a nice guitar amp that I could use but If I can stay ampless, I would prefer that.

Thank you all for the great suggestions. I'm going to start down this rabbit hole and there are plenty of options to explore from this thread.
 
I'll respond to this post...I know there's been many of this flavor. This is a viable path except.... the guitar player is throwing out good songs because of the rhythm guitar parts during solos. If we had to, he would rather play to a backing track part which I'm not a fan of.

I do use a Micropog and it did not occur to my thick brain to split the signal. We are somewhat limited on the board for another signal, so I need to look into that. If I could split the high part of the octave and dirty that up, seems like it could be the poor mans solution for me. I currently run ampless and play through a Tonex. I do have a nice guitar amp that I could use but If I can stay ampless, I would prefer that.

Thank you all for the great suggestions. I'm going to start down this rabbit hole and there are plenty of options to explore from this thread.
Does the Tonex have the ability to split internally and send two outputs?
 
Not simultaneously but I can add another Tonex 1 to the second output possibly. I was going to try some other effects pedals like my Tube Screamer first

If you can, try a Bass Driver or B7K sim if the Tonex will do that, and dial in a bunch of upper midrange presence.

Years ago, I really wanted to be the guy who rocked both a bass and guitar amp, and it does sound awesome, but it's a logistical pain in the ass.

Over time I migrated towards running a split clean/semi-dirty signal with a bunch of high end cut and a big scoop for the guitar to sit in, and then when the guitar drops out I punch my mids up to fill in the gap.