How do I use this parallel ouput

[Randomite]

Hey everyone on my pedal board I have a darkglass alpha-omega onit is a parallel output. Mt question is how do I use this or shout I just keep everyplugged in series I have added picture to give an idea of what I'm talking about

 

[bholder]

the user manual must say how to use it?

You would think, but not really. A few google search tries later and I did find this:

Parallel Output
A passthrough for your input signal, useful for parallel processing.​

So yeah, it's just a (probably buffered) passthrough / bypass giving you a copy of the input signal. So your "clean" channel, if you want one?

 

[Randomite]

Awesome thank you !

 

[mmbongo]

Hey everyone on my pedal board I have a darkglass alpha-omega onit is a parallel output. Mt question is how do I use this or shout I just keep everyplugged in series I have added picture to give an idea of what I'm talking about

Interesting choice on that Fat Sugar....how do you like it? I have the Sugar Drive on my guitar board (which is supposed to be the same thing in a tiny format) and it removes every bit of low end even from my guitar signal, but it's designed to do that. How does it work in your bass rig?

 

[Randomite]

It gives it sort of a unique sound when combined with any of the others especially for some songs that I want overdrive but not overbearing drown out the singer over drive

 

[Nephilymbass]

Hey everyone on my pedal board I have a darkglass alpha-omega onit is a parallel output. Mt question is how do I use this or shout I just keep everyplugged in series I have added picture to give an idea of what I'm talking about

Parallel outs on these types of pedals are more so useful for recording. For example you can run the xlr out of your darkglass pedal to one channel and the parallel out can go to an amp or different DI for another channel that won’t have the darkglass pedals sound. You can then simultaneously record two different sounds on two different tracks which can be tweaked separately after the fact. One song might be all amp, one song might be all darkglass direct, another might be a blend, then yet another song might be a different blend of the two. Also a lot of people these days like to add eq and compression to the clean and dirty parts of a bass sound independently. For example highpassing the dirty channel at a higher frequency than the cleaner channel. Clean tones basically need compression to sound professional where dirty tones are already somewhat compressed so they don’t need as much compression if any at all. If you run everything in series in the studio and the bass is compressed after the fact you’re compressing everything, not just the clean tone.

If you’re jamming with friends or gigging I would just run everything in series. Sometimes it’s a hassle to get a sound guy on a gig to give you multiple channels for bass and even when they are cool with it you really have no control over how they mix the two channels together.

 

[Randomite]

Thank you very much this was a clear and understandable answer to my question!