surfpup Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Good primer on slaving, Andy. My only issues with slaving is that it can get buzzy. Seems like I always managed to find an abundance of treble while slaving an amp. Some folks send the slave signal to a power amp instead of another guitar amp - amplifying the signal but not recoloring/distorting it further - or sending the signal through their rack system. This was pretty common practice in the 80s as I recall. Then again running the slaved signal into the front end of another guitar amp to add more gain can sound great. An even simpler slaving arrangement involves slaving a small amp into a larger amp functioning as a tube power amp. You wanna hear a Champ sound huge live? Slave it into a 100 watt tube amp! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duane v Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 slaving a guitar amp just sounds like complete crap to me.... You can never get it loud enough to over-come that walkie-talkie tone.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy R Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 slaving a guitar amp just sounds like complete crap to me.... You can never get it loud enough to over-come that walkie-talkie tone.... It depends on how you do it. I guarantee my tone is nothing like a walkie talkie and has enough volume to blow what's left of your short follicles back. Depends on what you use and how you use it. Hot plates sound like arse. Webber Mass and Palmer PDI-03 works for me ..... and uh Eddie Van Halen too.... But I run through a power amp and Vintage 4/12 with greenbacks .... Agree running through the front end of another amp is not preferred. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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