running two amps, one wet, one dry

[dponbass]

I am player that uses many effects, I've run loopers, I've run pre-effect di's and post effect di's, I've tried it all. Depending on what you like as your core bass tone, if you like SWR's tone in general, then try a SWR MO bass, but get one with the Mo Controller or you will be using it for recording or practicing only. After years of pedal board hell, I found the Mo Bass has some pretty decent effects, though individual pedals can be more fun, and gives it to you in a very easy to use package that you can run wet and dry AND be able to mix how wet and how dry you want each of those to be. You can find the amps usually in the $500-600 range, and including the controller for under $800 most of the time. If you don't like SWR's core tone, you can get the Mini Mo which has the effects and controlling options, but is just the preamp. Those usually go for $500-800. I like SWR's core tone, though I wish it had a tad more grunt. In fairness, that's not what SWR is aiming for, but I get a very solid usable tone, with all the effect options in a powerful 900 watts at 4 ohms. As far as effects blending, it's the easiest and smallest way to run your clean and dry without 2 amps.

 

[Surly]

I've never heard anyone do this with good results, must be the cabs like mentioned before. I've had a few friends try to nail the Sevendust or Rise Against tone. I don't have the money for such experiments! Much easier to get some grit from a tube amp and pedal like the VT with a mid scooped sound and boosted lows.

 

[nysbob]

I run two amps w/ no crossover. If you have two sets of tone controls it's not hard to get them balanced out pretty well - you just need to take some time and work on it. I use programmable stereo effects, so I tweak the patches to work right with this arrangement.

Clatter Amy's setup is much more complicated than mine.

 

[Jim Powers]

Here's my stereo setup. I started with an A/B/Y box, but lately I take a stereo cable from the Ric-O-Sound jack on my Ric to a splitter cable direct to the amps; seems to minimize signal loss. One pup goes to each amp; the bridge goes to a BA210 to maximize the Ric's treble klank, and the neck goes to a BA115HP to fill in low bass.

I just spent some time playing with a Boss Bass Over Drive pedal on the BA210 input (again), but I think it confuses the sound. To me they sound best clean but EQ'd for overall tone.

 

[Jim Powers]

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[The Universe]

I have a similar related question.

I'm doing some recording coming up, and I want to run three signals. It's a hard rock band called Another North (check the link in my sig...shameless promo done!)

I want my rig to look like this:

Bass -> Tone Hammer -> Board
-> Ampeg SVTCL -> SVT810 -> Mics -> Board
-> Effects -> MarkBass LMKII -> MarkBass STD102HF -> Mics -> Board

My reasoning behind doing this is that I want a nice clear clean tone to blend with a growly, spacious sound, and blended with a very transparent amp for effects.

My question is: what's the best way to split my signal to these three sources?

Cheers!

R

 

[nysbob]

I have a similar related question.

I'm doing some recording coming up, and I want to run three signals. It's a hard rock band called Another North (check the link in my sig...shameless promo done!)

I want my rig to look like this:

Bass -> Tone Hammer -> Board
-> Ampeg SVTCL -> SVT810 -> Mics -> Board
-> Effects -> MarkBass LMKII -> MarkBass STD102HF -> Mics -> Board

My reasoning behind doing this is that I want a nice clear clean tone to blend with a growly, spacious sound, and blended with a very transparent amp for effects.

My question is: what's the best way to split my signal to these three sources?

Cheers!

R

You can use a small mixer with aux sends to split your signal, A+B boxes, whatever.

I think you will have a difficult time distilling these various sounds into one good cohesive recorded tone. I'm speaking not only as a bassist, but as an engineer.

You can do a lot of cool stuff on stage that works, but getting it down to a recording is something else.

 

[lowphatbass]

I have a similar related question.

I'm doing some recording coming up, and I want to run three signals. It's a hard rock band called Another North (check the link in my sig...shameless promo done!)

I want my rig to look like this:

Bass -> Tone Hammer -> Board
-> Ampeg SVTCL -> SVT810 -> Mics -> Board
-> Effects -> MarkBass LMKII -> MarkBass STD102HF -> Mics -> Board

My reasoning behind doing this is that I want a nice clear clean tone to blend with a growly, spacious sound, and blended with a very transparent amp for effects.

My question is: what's the best way to split my signal to these three sources?

Cheers!

R

Assuming your recording digitally you should have no problem recording your tracks clean and either re-amping(running the signal through various amps/effects/cabs/mics after the fact and recording them onto different tracks)or just bouncing them "in the box" and using plug-ins.