ToLo Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 (edited) Take two outputs from the pedal and put them into the same amp: OUT - (affected tone) into the return of the effects loop and into the power amp PARALLEL OUT - (unaffected tone) into the input of the amp so it goes through the pre amp of the bass amp itself I run this pedal at the end of my board, so I wondered if it could be a way of blending two different preamp sounds through one amp (utilising the preamp of the pedal AND the preamp in the bass amp)? Edited February 25 by ToLo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeFRC Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 that depends on the bass amp's effect loop. Mine is series so that wouldn't work. Parallel would. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToLo Posted February 25 Author Share Posted February 25 4 minutes ago, LukeFRC said: that depends on the bass amp's effect loop. Mine is series so that wouldn't work. Parallel would. Ah I hadn't considered that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech21NYC Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 The Blend control allows you to mix in the un-effected signal with the SansAmp circuit though everything goes through the Low, Mid and High EQ. In most amps you will bypass your amp's preamp by plugging into the effects return. You can use the parallel out and send your un-effected signal to your bass amp and send the SansAmp XLR output to the mixer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warwickhunt Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 I might be missing something but you could be over thinking it. If you go bass into the Sansamp and then out to your amp, you have two sounds available; Sansamp off and you have your amp tone, Sansamp on and you have Sansamp + bass amp Alternatively plug your bass into your amp, put the preamp into your amp effects loop and you have 2 sounds. Either of these options give you the same outcome that you were trying to achieve in your OP... yes/no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToLo Posted February 26 Author Share Posted February 26 Just now, warwickhunt said: I might be missing something but you could be over thinking it. If you go bass into the Sansamp and then out to your amp, you have two sounds available; Sansamp off and you have your amp tone, Sansamp on and you have Sansamp + bass amp Alternatively plug your bass into your amp, put the preamp into your amp effects loop and you have 2 sounds. Either of these options give you the same outcome that you were trying to achieve in your OP... yes/no? Yes. I have massively overthought this 😅 thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warwickhunt Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Just now, ToLo said: Yes. I have massively overthought this 😅 thank you The only thing you can't achieve is 2 sounds, one of which is solely the Sansamp, which you can only do by having the pedal into the return of the effects loop, thereby bypassing the amps preamp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannybuoy Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 I’ve done something similar, split the signal with one Sansamp, run the parallel out into another Sansamp or Darkglass box, then blend together at the end with a blender pedal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouthmw Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 18 hours ago, Tech21NYC said: You can use the parallel out and send your un-effected signal to your bass amp and send the SansAmp XLR output to the mixer. This is how Sansamp was designed to be used. If you have a good amp & cab, you don't need any extra preamps muddying things up in front of it. Sansamp is excellent for sending an emulated amp&cab tone to FOH or for using it straight to audio interface to record or just jam with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannybuoy Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 On 26/02/2024 at 23:37, dannybuoy said: I’ve done something similar, split the signal with one Sansamp, run the parallel out into another Sansamp or Darkglass box, then blend together at the end with a blender pedal. I gave this another try today - Sansamp BDDI with the parallel out going to a Leeds, then a Mosquite blender used to mix them together. With the Mosquite set at 100% I can essentially use it as a channel switcher. Set at 50% I can switch between pure BDDI and a mix of BDDI/Leeds. It sounds particularly good blended with the presence/treble dialled back on the BDDI and the bass rolled back on the Leeds, so that each pedal is handling a different frequency range. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dood Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 On 26/02/2024 at 23:37, dannybuoy said: I’ve done something similar, split the signal with one Sansamp, run the parallel out into another Sansamp or Darkglass box, then blend together at the end with a blender pedal. Same here, I used to use an MXR M80 with a Sansamp. blended together with an SFX Blender. Blending the two different flavours of drive worked nicely! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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