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JamesHealey

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« on: November 06, 2007, 12:42:38 PM »
Ok Im running a Cornford Hurricane for my Dirty sounds and a Fender Deluxe Reverb '65 for my clean tones.

Im looking for an A/B Switch between the two, preferably one that doesn't require a power source.. Any Suggestions?

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« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2007, 12:47:05 PM »

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« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2007, 01:28:46 PM »
i tried to order one of those a few weeks ago and they e-mailed back to tell me they are not currently in production.  they recommended the Morley ABY box, although elsewhere i've only heard fairly poor things about it.

looking around i found this http://www.monkeyfx.co.uk/routers.html  and i've heard good things about it, although i haven't gone as far as ordering one yet.  i think it is the one i'll go for though.
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« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2007, 01:35:04 PM »
just reading back, it's just a straight A or B pedal you wanted.  if you go down the Monkey FX page a little there's one of those as well, the ABominiser.  and only 40 quid!
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« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2007, 01:42:46 PM »
http://www.tonebone.com/tb-headbone-vt.htm or similar from Radial.

Whirlwind makes an excellent ABY pedal, as does HomeBrew Electronics.

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« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2007, 04:16:33 PM »
http://www.redonionsolutions.co.uk/

These were recommended to me - Seem superb.
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« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2007, 05:53:41 PM »
If you simply want to switch between the two amps then any passive switched like those recommended above will be fine. However, if you want to have the option of playing both amps together you three potential problems:

1) If you aren't using any buffered pedals in your signal path, by routing the signal to two amps you will reduce the impedance your guitar sees. This could load your guitar signal down and effect you tone by rolling of top end as well are reducing the signal slightly. This may not be a significant problem, but can be avoided by either buffering the signal our using an impedance matching transformer.

2) You may experience a earth loop between you amps which will cause hum. This may or may not be a problem depending on the power supply where you are playing. To avoid this you can either buffer the signal, use a splitter with an isolating transformer, or use a cable between the splitter and an amp with the earth discontected at one end.

3) You need to check your amps are in phase. If your amps are out of phase you will loose bass frequencies due to phase cancellation. If your amps are out of phase you just need to reverse the wires to the speaker/s of one of them. One point worth making is that on some channel swithcing amps the lead and clean channels are out of phase, which could certainly cuase problems in a multi amp set up!

Unfortunately sorting out problems 1 & 2 add expense to the project. If you do want to go down the "bullet proof" route Lehle make excellent, although expensive, transformer isolated signal swithing boxes. As an additional feature they are logic controlled, which means you can swith A, B or A+B with the press of one button, unlike a passive switcher.

Of course if you simply want to switch between the two amps a cheap passive switcher will be fine.

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« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2007, 11:36:35 PM »

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« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2007, 01:17:58 AM »
+1 on the Lehle!!!!!!!us it to switch between mammoth boogie amps,and she is super smooth and transparent
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