5 Ways To Use Switcher Pedal - ABY Boxes Explained!
Vložit
- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- Sam explains 5 different ways that you can use an AB or ABY switcher pedal!
This is an essential video to watch if you've ever wanted to run two amps at once, or use multiple amps and switch between them. This is our handy guide to using AB boxes and ABY amp switching pedals made easy!
00:00 Intro
00:29 What is an AB or ABY box?
00:53 Switching amplifiers with an AB switcher
01:49 Blending amp tones with an ABY pedal
03:21 How to set up a wet/dry guitar amplifier rig
05:11 'Always on' guitar tuner using an ABY pedal
06:14 How to switch between 2 guitars
06:49 2 guitars into 1 amplifier
07:13 Switching inputs into a looper pedal
08:43 Outro (including Boss LS-2 Line Selector Overview)
Featured switchers...
Orange Amp Detonator: www.pmtonline.co.uk/orange-am...
Fender ABY Switcher: www.pmtonline.co.uk/fender-ab...
Boss LS-2 Line Selector: www.pmtonline.co.uk/boss-ls2-...
An ABY box is a simple, but versatile switching unit allowing you to switch and combine either multiple inputs or outputs. In this video we cover how to use an ABY to blend two amplifier tones, switch between amplifiers, set up a wet/dry amplifier rig, set up an 'always on' tuner and switch between two input sources. Check out our full range of switchers at the PMT website or at you nearest Professional Music Technology...
Subscribe to PMTVUK:
czcams.com/users/PMTVUK?sub_...
Find us on social media:
/ pmthouseofrock
/ pmthouseofrock
/ pmthouseofrock
www.pinterest.co.uk/pmthouseo... - Hudba
![5 Ways To Use EQ Pedals | Too Afraid To Ask [Boss EQ-200]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/rA17mta5kq4/mqdefault.jpg)
Another use for an ABY is for recording a live performance. If you put the pedal in the front of the signal chain you can run output 1/A to an amp and output 2/B to the audio interface recording the performance. This allows you to capture just the guitar signal completely dry so you can re-amp that performance in the studio later on. Say you can only use one amp on stage but rather that track be running through different amps, pedals and amp settings on the final recording (for example you want a clean fender tone for the song but a heavy overdrive marshal sound for the solo) Well you can re-amp the performance in the studio to run through any selection of amps and pedals you’d like and even adjust the settings of the amps and pedals in real time when re-recording the re-amped performance. It brings a totally new element to recording a live performance
I love his voice. I can hear him talk all day
Ridiculously helpful. As usual.
I'm going to add one use. It's the same as the 'always on tuner', but with another application: practicing bends. You can hear and confirm visually if you're on the right spot. Very useful also for learning the entire fretboard
This was very helpful! Setting up a little studio for fun at home and am learning as I go. I run a trio pedal separate from my pedals and guitar amp and was looking for a way to keep my guitar plugged into both without having to swap mid-playing. Haven’t got my hands on a ABY yet but now I know it’ll work. Thank you!
Awsome tutorial and just love the looper demo in the end!
As always Sam, very helpful. Lots of gear videos make massive assumptions that we guitarists know how to use or set up lots of equipment...which we clearly don't. Lovely simple explanations, demonstrations & useful graphical diagrams. keep it up dude.
Very good and simple explanation of the different ways to use these kind of pedals, thank you! I was thinking about using the Fender ABY to split my guitarsignal while recording.
One signal going to my amp, into the torpedo captor, through the interface to the DAW with IRs. The second signal going directly in the other channel of the interface to record a DI track.
I guess if the ABY box isn't noisy that should work just fine.
the last looping tip was wonderful!
What a great musician you are. Thanks for this great video.
Awesome explanation and lesson into A/B switching usage!!
Very nice video and very tasteful playing. Thank you.
Superb explanations. Give Sam a raise!
Ok the thumbs up after your awesome loop made my freaking day. Fantastic video thank you!
Great demo, great playing.
Very helpful...I just bought the boss rc300 for live looping and was looking for a way to switch instruments... eventually I will use a mixing board to feed all I need into the pedal but this is much cheaper and better to learn the process....
extremely helpful trying the Wet/Dry setup..
Excellent and clear demonstrations! And that looping was fantastic - my only complaint is that you made it look so easy... (Think I need to go and practise now...)
Fantastic, comprehensive review! Cheers!
Great video! Thanks for the breakdown
Great explanations and visuals
I am sure someone else must have mentioned this but I use an AB/Y box to pass my signal to various effect pedals in parallel as well as series.
Wow, great video and excellent demonstrations. I'm getting one for my Vox AC15 so I can switch between and even combine the two channels.
Great and simple understanding video! thank you
Nice vid and very helpful explanation. THANK YOU!
amazing, thank you! just the video I was after, very informative and friendly
This would be amazing with a double neck guitar. Set one up more clean an one muddy.. great video love from Portland Oregon.
I'd originally built my own A/B pedal (complete w/Abey Lincoln decal) to use as an overdrive pedal, sending one output to my clean Rickenbacker amp and the other to a $20 Drive CD-200 with the gain cranked. Once I realized that I already had two overdrive pedals (silly boy!), I ended up taking the output from my entire pedal chain and ran one output to my Ric amp for playing guitar and the other to my Vox Super Beatle across the room for bass. Plus, it's fun to switch amps in the middle of playing and confusing my friends (or set an amp up at the back of the room during a gig!).
Great review 👍
A very useful and clear video.
It was very useful. Thank you. 💖
I use aby boxes on a guitar setup to switch between midi guitar and regular guitar, pre all the other pedals. Then another one to switch or blend 2 synthesizers on the midi side
parallel amping. makes perfect sense. I've spent a lot of time in a DAW and this is news to me for some reason 😄
Really helpful video! Thank you
Just got the Orange ABY today. My plan is to hook it up to blend a Vox Custom AC30 and Marshall Silver Jubilee in a wet/dry setup. I'm also going to see If I can blend the Strymon Iridium with the Marshall. Should be fun
Great video. One idea, however, for use #3, would be to show the difference between having both wet and dry together vs them being separated, so we can hear how much better it is.
Great video, sir. Thanks.
Thanks man. Just what I was looking for.
This was perfect Thankyou!!!!!
Excellent! Thank you - most helpful.
Impressive looper job
This is a good idea for people who do not have a effects loop built-in into their amplifier. This would more or less achieve the same result and requires only a second amplifier and a pedal like the Orange Detonator.
Great video .... I’m gonna get aby box 📦
That shit at the end just blew my mind! Awesome vid!
Very useful thank you. One question, can you use A/B to go in-front or FX loop of the same amp. This could be useful for multi-effects unit that have only one output.
7:33, and thats how to demo a pedal folks. nicely done. cool..
Great clip Sam, you are a true fountain of information. What do you recommend for switching pedal order, is there such a device / to do this ? Thx again
This was a very helpful video, thank you! Question: I have an orange amp detonator to send signal to 2 combo amps, and a passive aby box called the ehx switchblade +, can I use the ehx in the opposite way from the orange, to combine the mic signal from cab a and cab b together in the y out channel? Thanks!
Absolute genius!
Way #6 You can also use it to change channels on a 2 channel amp or combine both channels
let's say I have a bass guitar already splitted, one with wet crunchy sound and the other one directly from the bass (D.I.). at the end of my chain can I put a ABY pedal to sum these two chains going to a single output??? A, receives crunchy. B, receives D.I. - Y outputs both???
Nice demo! I'm coming in a bit late but am curious about running a 3 amp set up consisting of an fx processor in stereo and a dry amp channel. I'm thinking Guitar into ABY input>A output to dry amp. B output to FX processor input>FX processor output Left to one amp / output Right to the other. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks again for the demo.
Another use: Switch between direct guital signal and midi processed signal or midi keyboard (using Irig with an Ipad + midi guitar 2 + Sampletank for instance).
Really helpful Sam! One question, to use the 3 cable method for a noise gate, (guitar to splitter, A to gate, B to dry effects to amp, EFx send to mod pedals to gate, out of gate to time based pedals to EFx return), do I only need the cheap one or do I need the expensive one?
Use No. 4 makes it sound like a buffer is a bad thing when splitting the signal to both an amp and an always-on tuner. Rather the contrary. Passive splitting to tuner is just like passive splitting to second amp (because the tuner has an input impedance); your chain might be true bypass but you’re still losing some
dBs (3-6), and your tone is likely to change. For that specific purpose, I would definitely recommend a buffered ABY (or simply use the boss as is, the buffer in that pedal is OK).
Thx! Awesome!
Just found this video, great explanation all around. I have a question. I have two amps (Peavy Classic 30 and Mesa Boogie .22) neither of which has an aux-in. Instead of a second guitar, can the second "instrument" be an audio player? TO feed backing tracks to the amp while playing? Thanks. Love the channel.
In looping you can use with the mic. Send the mic signal to the amp And to the loop so you can sign and play the guitar but only loop the guitar, then switch the mic signal and loop a beat box rithm for example.
Ooooo!
Nice video thanks.
But what about the 6th option ?
If you have an acoustic and an electric guitar but wanna use some of the same effect pedals on both guitars such as looper boss rc 30 , overdrive , delay, reverb ,…
But still having 2 separate output signals going to an acoustic amp and the other to an electric amp.
Thanks for having a look at this :)
It's also useful if you use a multi fx pedal to plug a guitar and bass in for example to use the same fx pedal.
Thanks for the info! I have the Orange Amp Detonator, using one guitar to split the signal into two amplifiers. Can A tuner pedal be placed before the ABY box to mute both signal paths?
Thanks!!!
Thanks for this.
I have a Marshall JCM900 and a Fender Ultimate Chorus. I want to run them simultaneously because, well who doesn't love a Marshall and the Fender has a lovely solid state overdrive/chorus tone and the reverb tank is easy to control.
Yesterday, I bought a Live Wire AB/Y splitter box. I run a guitar into a Cry Baby Wah and a distortion/overdrive box. When I connect the two amps, they screech and whistle, with lots of noise. Removing the effects pedals (by plugging directly into the splitter box), nothing changed. I daisy-chained them (Fender into the Marshall), there was no noise or feedback. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks, again.
jvb
Thanks so much for the video. I am new to all of this, so please excuse me if my question is stupid. I wanted to ask about using the ABY with two instruments: is it possible to do A for an electric guitar with specific effects pedals and B for an acoustic guitar with a different set or combination of pedals? Or would the BOSS LS-2 do that? I hope that makes sense
Never use an ABY, so this may be a dumb question. Can you use it to split into both channels of a two channel amp like a Deluxe? Wondering if it would be the same as channel jumping or if you could run, say, straight into the bright channel while routing through pedals to the normal channel. Great video, thanks.
Radial engineering has incredible ABY boxes, highly recommend that company. Not bad prices either for the quality, my switcher is heavy AF
Thank you.
I've got a PRS SE electric and Martin SC-13E and I want both to go to one Fishman 2 channel Loudbox Performer acoustic amp. I also want both guitars to go through my Zoom G3Xn effects box. Would I put the AB switch "after" the effects box , that is, between the effects box and the amp? If it was possible, an easier way to achieve what I want would be to just get a Y splitter to put into my Zoom FX box's one Input and then go out to the amp with one output cable same as always. However, I've been told by my band that you can not put a Y into the FX box Input and two guitars because it wont work that way. ( I do realize it would be better to bring an electric amp and my acoustic amp for better tones on each guitar but I'm an old guy and dont want to haul two amps to a gig anymore. We are just kind of an acoustic/electric trio and the acoustic will be used the most). Thanks so much for any help,.
Thanks
Dear Sam, Could u please explain me if the A B switch would work in the following case: I want to send a guitar layer to a Looper, and also a bass layer to the same looper (not at the same time of course) but I need two outputs . Thanks!!
Great video!
I’m a saxophonist and vocalist and I want to be able to loop a hook that I sing that I can solo over with my sax. Would a switch box be helpful in this case? If I’m switching from my vocal mic input to the sax mic input?
I was wondering if I'm able to route my guitar to the input of my amp.. while routing a drum machine to the auxiliary input of the same amp.. I want the effects on the amp to come through on the guitar sound but I don't want the amp effects coming through on the drum sound.. but I want the guitar and the drum machine sounds coming through the same amp... Will this work for that?
what if i split into two lines after an overdrive? A for wet (pedals and then amp) and B for the dry straight through amp
I use one with my Sovtek Mig50 as a channel switcher. The 1 and 2 channels are voiced differently .
With the Fender ABY pedal can I pass my BASS and GUITAR, going to my pedal board and then going out to 1 amp which would be a BASS amp. I use my bass amp for my guitar since it sounds AMAZING and many guitarist do this. But yeah I have a looper and would love to be able to use my pedal board with the bass and the guitar. Is this possible? obviously I don't play both at same time but when I live loop it would save on cables lol and pedals.
I have a micro dark head and 2 20w 1×8 orange cabinets. Will the orange ab pedal allow me to run both speakers with the micro dark without damaging anything?
Could you use a passive ABY box to split the signal of a preamp send to two power amp returns - the first return to the same amplifier and the second to an additional power amp and cabinet? Would this cause any problems with the power amps? My thought is using two Joyo Bantamp heads, but only the preamp section of one of them in order to get twice the output (an amp and cab on either side of the stage).
Hi. So if I wanted some effects to go through both amps I would need to plug the pedals into the Y input?
I just received mine and have a question. How do I send output of my pedalboard that is connected to input of my amp to the pedal? Sorry to ask a dumb question but the inputs only allow one cable from each amp. I want to send pedalboard-> amp-> Morley switch pedal input A and then on amp 2 send output of pedalboard 2-> amp2 -> morley pedal input 2.
Is there a way to use an ab or aby footswitch to switch between two different speaker sources ran off of one amplifier?
Can I run a fender aby with a fender tube amp as the 1st input the 2nd input being a speaker cabinet? And run it at the same Time?
instead of two guitars, could i have one output go to my main pedalboard and the second go to my boss gm-800 synth pedal and then to each their own amps ?
I have a headbone vt -radial tube amp switcher. How do I hook up my pedal board to it?
can I use this pedal to have sound on both my left and right studio monitor? my problem is I only get sound from my left channel
What about two signal chains to one amp Been thinking JHS Switchback The Boss does the same thing correct
I’d like to go into my axe fx and my Apollo interface to record guitar rig and or axefx separately or at the same time, what’s my best option?
I only have 1 fender amplifier and an acoustic guitar. I want to know if you can use ABY into a microphone so I will use one speaker only during gigs. Thanks.
Can you use an A/B Pedal on the power out side to switch between 2 amps into 1 cab?
Can you combine a head with 60 watts to small amp that’s 200 watts with those pedals? I ask bc I want to do it to my Carvin head that’s 60 watts and a Fender 85 that’s 200 and use an aby switch to go through a 2x12
I have two different amps and want to switch between one used for rhythm chugg stuff and the other for lead/solos. Would this switcher pedal help with this task and also let me blend both amps together as well?
Here's a question. I'm stumped. I want to run a drive and a fuzz to two separate amps without blending them into an aby box. and I need a way to switch both pedals on and off with one switch. Any solution???
You can also use it in reverse though right? A guitar and a synth going into one amp. Guitar, Synth or both.
Is it possible to use this ( using two amps) even though I use the 4 cable method?
With the looper/ bass/ guitar part of the video, did your output go into a bass or guitar amp?
What about channel switching in a Deluxe Reverb?
Currently i have one amp that I use for my pedal platform and the other i run a clean signal. Since there is only 1 input I was hoping i could run my pedals between this pedal and one of my amps. Is that possible?
How do you change channels between two guitar amplifiers at the same time? I run an ABY pedal but I don't want to use two different amp foot switches to change their channels.
Can you send from the amp to different speakers?
This is the one , that I am looking for.( A for lead g ! B FOR BASS G ....
H!!!just bought a BOSS ME 90 mutieffects, and i it there's a preamp part with very good emulated 11 amps I can't use with my without loop VOX AC15C1!!!so can I use my Me90 with a FENDER AB BOX, one cable to the AMP and another cable from the ab box to the PA,,???Bu where do I have to put ten multi ti get effects in both sides???ALAIN
TY 💯‼️💯