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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:41 pm
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According to the manual, under "Effects".... "(2) Multiple Amplifiers -
Connect SEND on the primary unit to RETURN on the auxiliary unit".

Can anyone tell me what doing this accomplishes?


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ok, from the manual on Fender website it says:

(1) Effects Loop -
Connect SEND to the input of your effects device
and the output of the effects device to RETURN.

The effects device is usually a stomp box. You could also connect your stomp box between the bass and the bassman 250 input, but you have more control if you do it the way the manual says.

(2) Multiple Amplifiers -
Connect SEND on the primary unit to RETURN on the auxiliary unit.
The primary unit controls all auxiliary units except MASTER.

If you want to daisy chain together a bunch of Bassman 250's, this is how you might want to do it. The "primary unit" is the first amp, or the master. the auxiliary unit is the slave. The master talks to the slaves (which are daisy chained together via send returns...) and the master makes all the slaves do exactly what it is doing, example: all slave amp volumes go up when master amp volume goes up.

I have not actually tried this because i do not have a bassman 250, but that's what the manual says at http://www.fender.com/support/manuals/p ... _2005-.pdf

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Is all the power of both heads being used at that time? Does it, in effect, mean that If you attach your speaker(s) to the second amp in the chain, only, that 500 watts of power is being pushed through the speakers?


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"Is all the power of both heads being used at that time? Does it, in effect, mean that If you attach your speaker(s) to the second amp in the chain, only, that 500 watts of power is being pushed through the speakers?"

both heads are pumping power and they got to pump that power into something, like speakers. if you connect nothing to the head, well nothing comes out.

you need speakers on the first head, speakers on the second head, etc... that's how you will get 500 watts. it adds up.


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Now if I understand it correctly, You'd have two heads sumultaneously pumping 250 watts into one speaker(s) each. And neither speaker would actually be pushing 500 watts.

Is that an accurate description?


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:) bolth amps controled by same
set of tone controles just vol
works on 2nd amp like a slave


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To use multiple Bassman 250's, you wouldn't "daisy-chain" them. You would connect the "send" on the primary unit to the "return" on all the auxiliary units. If you had more than one auxiliary unit, you would need to split the signal so it could be fed to all of the "return" jacks.

And, on the second unit, the "FX Blend" and "Master" controls set the output level. You need to turn up the "FX Blend" control on all of the auxiliary units in order to hear the signal being fed to it on the "return" jack.

The "send" signal is the output from preamp/tone control circuit. On your main unit, this is the low level signal after it has been processed through the volume/compressor/balance/contour/tone controls. The "return" jack is an input to the power amplifier (through the "FX Blend" control). Thus, these two jacks allow tapping into the signal for additional effects processing or for distributing the signal to additional amps.

If you were to attempt to daisy-chain the amps (i.e. "send" to "receive", "send" to "receive", etc.), the third amp would get no signal as the second amp would have no signal on its "send" output.


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