Have many forumites have run their dual mono Rics through two amps at the same time?
With the weather as crummy as it is (3/4 inch of rain since noon), I've been playing around with some different settings using my 360/12CW through a Champion 600 and a Traynor YCV20WR.
Dual Mono
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I have done this a lot. A little less lately, since I've been using my Ric-O-Sound guitars less recently.
My favorite setup was with a Roland JC120 for the neck pickup and a Mesa Mark III for the bridge. I have two tube amps now I like better than the Mesa, but even my Motion Sound KBR-M rotary speaker doesn't top the clean sounds I used to get with the JC. I'm going to mess around a bit more with my Flexi and my JC30 clone in each position, to see what I come up with.
Some cool things about this setup are that I can always have great articulation, even if I'm using a lot of distortion in the bridge pickup channel; and if I'm adding gain, it is only in one channel, so the relative volume doesn't have to get quite so loud if I hit the boost switch.
My favorite setup was with a Roland JC120 for the neck pickup and a Mesa Mark III for the bridge. I have two tube amps now I like better than the Mesa, but even my Motion Sound KBR-M rotary speaker doesn't top the clean sounds I used to get with the JC. I'm going to mess around a bit more with my Flexi and my JC30 clone in each position, to see what I come up with.
Some cool things about this setup are that I can always have great articulation, even if I'm using a lot of distortion in the bridge pickup channel; and if I'm adding gain, it is only in one channel, so the relative volume doesn't have to get quite so loud if I hit the boost switch.
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I do it quite a bit and like the way it "expands" the sound. It's kind of hard to describe, but when you go back to regular, one-amp mono, it sounds kind of lame by comparison - even if the two amps were sitting right next to each other. My setup is a bit different as my twelve is wired like a regular 360 to the normal mono jack and the second jack goes to an added middle toaster all by itself. I run the regular neck/bridge 360 circuit through a JangleBox and then into my Traynor YCV40WR. The middle pickup circuit goes through a reverb pedal and then into my Traynor YBA200 bass head and YBX1510 cabinet, which yields deeper, richer lows and super-clear highs because it has a horn tweeter. Then I have a chorus pedal that can be stuck into either circuit if I want it. Guitar-cable.com built me a 23' long custom cord from stereo wire that has a 6" "Y" and two mono jacks on the instrument end and another "Y" at the amp end with 5' long legs and two more mono jacks. It's a fun system to play with.