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Does anyone else wish that amps these days for guitars etc had more provision for plugging in more than one guitar or bass?

Years ago, most single channel amps used to have at least two inputs, a two channel amp had two inputs in each channel (e.g. most Fender amps), and three channel amps had six inputs in three channels..(e.g. Vox AC30) The multi-channel jobs often even had separate volume and tone controls for each channel also.

Even most bass amps had an extra input for a normal guitar or another bass ..

Many of these multi-channel amps these days have two, three and even four channels but only ONE bloody input! And they usually have only one 'clean' channel and the other channels only give various amounts of distortion...whether you want it or not.

I suppose it used to be expected by amp designers and makers that people would share amps, especially young players with little money, and these amps were far more convenient for practices, jams, parties etc and transport generally.

OK, I know, I'm living in the past.

There are plenty that have two independent channels (each with two input sockets of differing sensitivity).

Try a Fender Deluxe Reverb or Twin Reverb, for instance.

JN

Er, yes, thanks Jim....saw them both in a shop the other day while I was buying a set of new strings, either was about AUS $3,000 each! I bought the strings for $9.90 as that was all my budget would stand!

cockroach wrote:Er, yes, thanks Jim....saw them both in a shop the other day while I was buying a set of new strings, either was about AUS $3,000 each! I bought the strings for $9.90 as that was all my budget would stand!

Hmmm...

They're both a lot cheaper than that here. Perhaps I should say even here.

JN

If you buy a Fender G-Dec 30 you can plug in two guitars, store all of your backing tracks (well 100 of them) save them to individual patches complete with guitar FX and amp sim, and if 30 watts is too quiet there is a stereo line out to PA which can carry just backings, just guitar or all combined.

Are there any dedicated Shad's patches? no you've got to put those in yourself, but on my Quadraverb and Magic stomp after the first couple of numbers I could never be bothered scrolling through for different echoes for each tune, so it all used to generally go out as Apache or whatever I caame to first - Philistine or what!!

Had mine 18 months now and still reckon it's the best amp I've ever had, despite being an ardent "valve man" until then

Geoff

Geoff, if you're starting up a Philistine section, I may have to join it. My normal rig includes Quad GT with EFTP, but recently I have been experimenting with a seriously cut-down kit – just an iPad with Peavey's Ampkit App installed, running into my Bose L1 Compact sound system. The delays I use in the package are not multi-tap but, you know what, they sound pretty good to my ear and I'm positive audiences don't notice any difference from my full (and heavy!) rig.

First 2 members then Noel?

Geoff

there are multitap delays on the G-Dec3 though, whether they replicate th correct gap between virtual heads I've no idea, but you can get a pretty good Apache echo out of it

Geoff