Using Two Amps - Dry / Wet Setup





So I decided to put a very simple pedal board together to use two amps at the same time.
Of course there are several ways to go about this but I wanted a dry / wet setup.
Since the stack on the left has more clean headroom it would be my "effects amp",
the smaller combo on the right would be the dry amp.





With a small pedal board I am able to get my basic sound ideas covered.
It's just an overdrive pedal with two variations, a delay pedal, a tuner, and a splitter box which isolates the two signals going to the amps and takes care of phase issues.

The white coil cable goes to the effects amp, the red one goes to the dry amp.






Now to recap my signal chain:

Guitar goes into the Jekyll & Hyde for overdriven sounds; 
into the Silvertone guitar splitter box;
from there one signal goes to the dry amp;
the second signal goes to the Double Deca delay;
out of the delay into the wet amp;
(the tuner is connected to the splitter box too via a separate output);


Both amps are set to a clean sound but just the wet amp gets the effect from the delay pedal.
When I use the overdrive pedal, both amps get driven, but again, only the wet amp gets the delay added on top.

Very useful for running time - based effects or any kind of modulation pedals way "wetter" than usual because there's always the essential sound coming from the dry amp to provide a clear and responsive foundation.


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