Completed amps from Fender, Orange, Hiwatt, Vox, etc.
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by Country Boy Shane » Fri Oct 29, 2004 10:04 am
I Think an A/B Box will do the same thing for quite a bit cheaper and without all the fancy engineering.
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by Jim SS » Fri Oct 29, 2004 10:58 am
Shane,
you can't use an A/B box with 2 heads going to one cab as there is not a load on one of the heads when not in use.
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by rjgtr » Fri Oct 29, 2004 12:04 pm
Tone Bone really has a bunch of cool stuff...
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by dosmun » Fri Oct 29, 2004 12:13 pm
I Think an A/B Box will do the same thing for quite a bit cheaper and without all the fancy engineering.
an AB box as well as not providing a load on the bypassed amp will also have a ton of ground hum when connecting 2 amps. The 2 amps need to be isolated from each other in most cases.
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by dosmun » Fri Oct 29, 2004 12:17 pm
As I read more about this device and the Access Electronics switcher which is basically the same thing is you can't use a delay in the loop because the load resistor that is on the bypassed amp is too small to handle a speaker out it is just for the amp at idle.
I need to be able to use delay on one of my amps. So the more I read, the less appealing these boxes are.
The idea is great they just need to incorporate a better dummy load for the bypassed amp.
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by Flames1950 » Fri Oct 29, 2004 12:22 pm
I could easily blow a couple of grand on all ToneBone's stuff.
Anyone got a couple grand I can have??
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by Guest » Fri Oct 29, 2004 12:25 pm
Would running a dummy load off of the amp (parallel to the speaker/Headbone) keep the amp safe when bypassing with delay or would it burn up the small load resistor in the Headbone?
There has got to be a way to make this work
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by VelvetGeorge » Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:04 pm
The thing you need to do is also switch the guitar signal from amp to amp. That way the amp that's not in use is just idleing. And a small load resistor will work just fine.
I thought that's how the headbone works?????
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by dosmun » Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:14 pm
The repeats from the Delay is what their saying will cause the problem because the delay is in the FX loop of the amp. So if I used the amp with delay for a lead sound and then went back to my Rythm amp it would still have a couple of repeats on the delay.
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by VelvetGeorge » Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:36 pm
I gotcha. I should read the posts better.
There would be some delay signal, but unless it was a long delay with a lot of regeneration it should be OK. I wonder what size the load resistor is in there? And if there's room to modify it with a larger one........
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by Jim SS » Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:59 pm
I've got the Tonebone Switchbone and always run 2 amp's for the most massive tone you have ever heard. It is more than just an A/B box as these do not provide for load correction. Believe me I've also got an A/B box and there is no comparrison in sound.
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by dosmun » Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:33 pm
I wonder how easy it would be to have a jack added to it so you could plug in a dummy load and bypass the internal resistor