https://guitarnoise.forum/live-sound/parallel-effects-chain/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:39:41 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/live-sound/parallel-effects-chain/#post-48161 Tue, 05 Aug 2003 07:16:59 +0000 Live Sound bprewitt https://guitarnoise.forum/live-sound/parallel-effects-chain/#post-48161 https://guitarnoise.forum/live-sound/parallel-effects-chain/#post-48160 Tue, 05 Aug 2003 06:58:25 +0000 It has one in and two outs.

You could run different effects off each output.
Amp FX loop send into RV-3 input.
Output A could have FX1 into FX 2 and back into the return,
then run Output B into FX 3 into FX 4 into another amp or hi/z in on a board.

I'll bet you could come up with some great sounds this way.

Even with RV-3 turned off you'll have two outs.
Then if you need a little reverb or delay to add color, you've got it.

joe]]> Live Sound forrok_star https://guitarnoise.forum/live-sound/parallel-effects-chain/#post-48160 https://guitarnoise.forum/live-sound/parallel-effects-chain/#post-48159 Thu, 31 Jul 2003 23:12:37 +0000
Your guitar/instrument cable goes into the A/B box, and then you have two cables coming out, one to row A of pedals and one to row B of pedals.

From each row of pedals you have tops of the correct Y cable and the bottom end leads to your amp.]]> Live Sound jonnyt https://guitarnoise.forum/live-sound/parallel-effects-chain/#post-48159 https://guitarnoise.forum/live-sound/parallel-effects-chain/#post-10 Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:14:20 +0000
I'm basically wanting to create an effects loop that begins with two-four distortion pedals all looped in parallel so that I can use any two at once. Sounds easy enough, but I've never dealt with a parallel effects setup enough to know how-to do this without getting any signal loss through a bad y-jack or etcetera.

I'm unsure of how-to do this. Whether I should get a DI-box with a splitter/joiner, or whether I should just get a couple of y-jacks (though it seems that signal loss is implied with a y-jack once half the signal goes, instead of simply using the remaining signal 100%). Perhaps I'm using cheap y-jacks, but that seems to be the case no matter which kind I've used. On the other hand, I'm not sure if a $40 splitter/joiner is really worth what I want to do, seeing as how most are simply 2-channels as opposed to 3-4.

Would I be better off custom-building one myself? Or is there a y-jack out there that, well, frankly, doesn't kill the signal if it's not being given 100% from both lines?

I'm at a loss. Any help would be much appreciated, even if it's simply 'build your own!' ;)

Bryce]]> Live Sound bprewitt https://guitarnoise.forum/live-sound/parallel-effects-chain/#post-10