Jumpering ´78 Hiwatt DR504
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 4:50 pm
Hi everyone,
It´s been a while since I got my ´78 DR504 and I have so much love for this amp.
So far, I´m using just the Brilliant channel and set my amp very clean (12:00) to serve my pedals. It´s a wonderful bold clean sound and I have nothing to complain.
As we guitarists are such cursed creatures, I started reading about some possibilities to connect the Normal and Brilliant channels just like Mr. Gilmour does with his Hiwatts (I´ve read his Hiwatts have a permanent link between the two high sensitivity inputs). So as my ´78 has just two inputs, and by design both are very sensitive, I decided to look for something to connect them.
I´ve read in KitRae site (http://www.kitrae.net/music/Images_Secr ... Inputs.jpg) and he uses an y-cable connector to split his guitar sound into two and feed both inputs in his amps.
I also read that any stereo pedal, e.g. chorus, delay and reverb, one can use their stereo outputs to feed two inputs as well.
Yesterday, I ordered the y-cable adapter, a 30 cm Cordial y-adapter, just to try out but today, after my gig, I decided to use my stereo chorus, an Ibanez SC-10 (MIJ from the 80s) and I used the stereo outputs to feed my amp and it sounded gorgeous! My God I thought my amp had a bold clean sound and now it is thunderous, clean and loud. My master volume needed to be reduced by half almost. The cool thing is that the pedal splits even when bypassed.
I know that there are many ways to split the guitar signal like isolated split boxes, y-cable, y-adapter, a/b/y boxes, stereo pedals etc... all of them seem to work. As I have no idea of electronics, my question is: What would you choose to split the guitar signal and feed a ´78 2-input Hiwatt?
It´s been a while since I got my ´78 DR504 and I have so much love for this amp.
So far, I´m using just the Brilliant channel and set my amp very clean (12:00) to serve my pedals. It´s a wonderful bold clean sound and I have nothing to complain.
As we guitarists are such cursed creatures, I started reading about some possibilities to connect the Normal and Brilliant channels just like Mr. Gilmour does with his Hiwatts (I´ve read his Hiwatts have a permanent link between the two high sensitivity inputs). So as my ´78 has just two inputs, and by design both are very sensitive, I decided to look for something to connect them.
I´ve read in KitRae site (http://www.kitrae.net/music/Images_Secr ... Inputs.jpg) and he uses an y-cable connector to split his guitar sound into two and feed both inputs in his amps.
I also read that any stereo pedal, e.g. chorus, delay and reverb, one can use their stereo outputs to feed two inputs as well.
Yesterday, I ordered the y-cable adapter, a 30 cm Cordial y-adapter, just to try out but today, after my gig, I decided to use my stereo chorus, an Ibanez SC-10 (MIJ from the 80s) and I used the stereo outputs to feed my amp and it sounded gorgeous! My God I thought my amp had a bold clean sound and now it is thunderous, clean and loud. My master volume needed to be reduced by half almost. The cool thing is that the pedal splits even when bypassed.
I know that there are many ways to split the guitar signal like isolated split boxes, y-cable, y-adapter, a/b/y boxes, stereo pedals etc... all of them seem to work. As I have no idea of electronics, my question is: What would you choose to split the guitar signal and feed a ´78 2-input Hiwatt?