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Post subject: Splitter Input Cable on a DRRI: Is This OK?
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 4:08 pm
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Sorry to post an additional thread, but I could not remember where the thread was for a web site that showed how to "bridge" the Normal and Vibrato channels in a black face Fender with a guitar (shielded?) cable going from the #2 of Normal in to the #1 of Vibrato and the guitar plugged in to #1 of Normal. I was skeptical, but it actually works.

But it just seems "unnatural" electronically to me, and I worried that it might be doing electronic damage. I also had one of these hanging around:
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index ... d=2103842#
so I plugged the two leads in to #1 of Normal and #1 of Vibrato, and it worked as well, or maybe I'm hearing things, better than the other routing (I thought it was more "musical", and easier to control).

Soooooo, my question to all who would know, are either of these input routings going to damage anything electronically? It is a very cool effect, helping to make the Vibrato channel more meaty, or the Normal channel with reverb. And I don't have to snip caps or pull out a soldering iron for a surgical Fritz mod. There is a point, in dialing the two volume knobs, where they cancel each other and sound like a** (because the channels are out of phase?). Still, if it is OK, the double headed input is a keeper for me (and out go the OD pedals). Thanks for any feedback!


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Post subject: Re: Splitter Input Cable on a DRRI: Is This OK?
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 8:42 pm
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Hi WhatsThatSmell,

No problem using either way to connect your guitar, no damage can occur with either connection. Using the Radio Shack Y connector, you eliminate a resistor in the signal path that you would have when using a jumper between the channels, so it may be a little louder signal from the guitar into the second channel this way. The phasing will be the same with either connection method. :idea:

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