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Is everyone on TB going stereo??

#81
DJ Bebop said:
Not if you run it like a PA system, more like a bi- amp situation. Mono sub, stereo top boxes or play stereo through FOH running stereo.

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That's true, I'll give you that.

I'm not much of a PA guy right now since my weekends are filled with non-musical work, so I was assuming a bi-amp setup in my reply. If I were running a simple setup, like a Stomp into a PA or a system with only 1-2 pedals, it wouldn't be bad, but I just look at all of the pedals on my board(s) right now (especially guitar) and think to myself "man, I'd have to change a LOT of things to make this usable"
 
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#82
basscooker said:
He suggested that by definition a bass or guitar technically can't be stereo unless different strings went to separate outs. For example half and half. I think that gets a little into semantics.

But

In principal I think sending different signals to a truly split-string rig would probably hurt my brain. Could you imagine E, D string hard left A and G string hard right? I think at volume I'd get motion sickness.

Has anyone done ^ that?
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Semantics are pretty popular around here (for good or ill).

Even sending different strings to different outs fails to meet some definitions of stereo. What meets all of the definitions is to play a bass (or whatever) in a room and record it with a stereo mic pair or array, and pan the resulting tracks appropriately in a mix.

For bass, I could see trying it for something like a tic-tac part in a spacious mix with a lot of reverb, or solo bass, or something ambient with a ton of effects.

Gretsch made a Chet Atkins stereo guitar with the pickups split in groups of 3 strings going to separate outputs (also available combined to one output, but it's still really a pair of half pickups). I haven't played one, but I think the point of that was to have a bigger cleaner amp for the distinct moving parts played on low strings, maybe with slapback delay, and something smaller with reverb for the highs.
 
#86
I played with a guitarist that had his boxes wired in stereo. Stupid idea I thought as his quad boxes, (Marshall 4x12's) had no real separation of the vertical wiring plan but because we went through our own FOH I let it go, to see how it would sound.
Zip, Nada, nothing discernible at all in the 3 piece band situation.
I played a triple rig to keep him in check. The bass was heard and the only gear feedback we ever received was about the bass so I guess the stereo wiring didn't matter.
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dfreeland83 said:
That's true, I'll give you that.

I'm not much of a PA guy right now since my weekends are filled with non-musical work, so I was assuming a bi-amp setup in my reply. If I were running a simple setup, like a Stomp into a PA or a system with only 1-2 pedals, it wouldn't be bad, but I just look at all of the pedals on my board(s) right now (especially guitar) and think to myself "man, I'd have to change a LOT of things to make this usable"
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I use to do that, gig a stereo bi-amped rig in my youth after my tube stereo Mahavishnu rig. Still have most of that stuff still here. BTW my wife wants to know when that crap is getting out of here. She sees me only playing the WD and a GS 112. "Why do you need all this other crap when you only use that?!"

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#89
I'm using "stereo" very loosely to mean muti-amp as well. Who is really doing gigs requiring Tim Commerford level of volume with multiple amps on stage? I've been seeing a lot of mentions lately, maybe it's just noticing one, you notice others.
 
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#90
When I make synthy sounds using pitch shifting, fuzz, envelope, and/or delay, I like to run my signal through a TC Electronic Mimiq before going into my headphones. I'd be way too lazy to do it live with multiple amps. But if I were just running DI to FOH, it would be pretty nice to send a low-passed clean tone for a mono signal with the stereo effected signal split left and right.
 
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#91
P. Aaron said:
Last Saturday, there were these 3 chicks at the Irish pub we gig at, seated at a table near the stage, even though they were kinda tipsy, they asked why I wasn't using a stereo output bass and amp setup yet. Because they were cute was the only reason I indulged them.

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You should have told them that you were, but that it wouldn't kick in for a another couple of drinks..... right along with their vision.
 
#92
I like a bit of stereo chorus on the top end, or bi-amped overdrive (or a combination of both). Never'd I go stereo on the low part, though, as it messes with the phasing.
darwin-bass said:
What does make sense to me is to run each pickup through a crossover taking highs from the bridge and lows from the neck. I think you would end up with a rich two pickup sound but with almost no mid scoop. But does anybody do this?
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It's basically how Ric-O-Sound works. Unfortunately it still scoops the mids (unless you engage the low-cut switch). I'd believe that the scoop is because of phase cancelling, rather than impedance loading.
 
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#94
MultiScaleMale said:
I'm using "stereo" very loosely to mean muti-amp as well. Who is really doing gigs requiring Tim Commerford level of volume with multiple amps on stage? I've been seeing a lot of mentions lately, maybe it's just noticing one, you notice others.
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I have used two amps ala Jack Casady Stanley Clarke. My regular bass rig and a little Behringer guitar amp with distortion going on and like a volume pedal to blend the guitar amp in and out of the mix.

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