How To Run Guitar Pedals In Parallel (Summing Amp, Buffered Splitter, Morning Glory, & More!)
If you’re like every pedal user, you place your pedals one after the other. Sure, you think about the order in which you place them, but you want something more, something new. Placing your pedals like this, in series, is tried and true, but there are other ways to stack your pedals. In parallel! Doing this allows you to get new and surprising sounds. Today, Josh walks you through the ins and outs of stacking your pedals in parallel.
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00:00-05:04 Intro + How To
05:04-07:08 Angry Charlie + Morning Glory
07:09-11:38 Cheeseball + Bonsai
11:39-13:01 Flight Delay + NOTAKLÖN
13:02-14:36 Flight Delay + 3 Series Reverb
14:37-16:24 Emperor + 3 Series Chorus
16:25-17:38 Emperor + Flight Delay
17:39-19:06 Nick’s Experiment
19:07-20:26 Bye!
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Thanks for this video..
Always wanted a blend knob on the boss hm 2 pedal . The tone is ugly and I love it but the low end gets sucked out and it kind of sounds thin.
I'm thinking of running the pedal parallel with my Randall amp.
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I’m so happy you let Nick do that last chain. That sounded awesome!
Great video!
I’ve started to experiment with this on my PRS Hollowbody II Piezo. This guitar has a humbucker out and a Piezo out. I send the Piezo output to a Spark 40 with assorted effects, and the Humbucker output through a few pedals to a Fender Champion 40 clean channel (or an amp sim).
It’s a fun sound when you can blend stuff into two amps. Fuzz/Distortion/Reverb alongside a nice clean sound with some delay is sweet. Or two Choruses. Combinations are endless.
Some sounds fantastic, others sound not so great. It’s like having a “BLEND” knob on steroids.
The Hollowbody also has a blended output that allows sending to a single amp/pedal chain+amp, but the parallel output is just fantastic.
I can see the value of sending stuff through the JHS splitter/summer boxes and may get a pair soon!
Can anyone share insight on running a Fuzz Face parallel like this? Pretty sure it's not possible like I want it. The Fuzz Face can't have a buffer before it, it needs to see the FULL guitar signal straight from the pickups (so you can't passively split before it), "anti-buffers" exist, but that would prevent the fuzz from cleaning up with the guitar volume pot. Think I'm SOL trying to runn Fuzz Face parallel with a clean signal.
Mind blown
u can do parallel with modded firmware of zoom MS Series without breaking the bank and absolutely less cable.
Hi thank you for the cool video will these work with fm3 and tonex?
Fuzz and Clean is giving me Sonic Youth vibes. Sold.
You could do the summing with a mixer
I thought my time based pedals sounded like trash running into the front of my 74' JMP 1959 and as we know the JMP SL doesn't have or work well with post pre effects loop,. i put my uni-vibe, phaser, DD3 and reverb on its own board and ran my aux out on my interface/studio mixer and mix in stereo in parallel and Ill never do it another way. Even fx loops on amps are not nearly as good as the wet.dry,wet. I use the AUX send of my allen and heath mixer but you could use a ABY pedal to do this too.
Man what a cool thing
Does it make a lot of noise? I hear a high-pitched buzzing sound.
You've got static coming through the output. How do you do a lot of pedals?
This is exactly what I would love to experiment with saxophone. Always great videos.
Josh Blew my mind with his Behringer Episode…..I went from ZERO Pedals and ONLY Multi-Fx to 21 Behringers and 43 Pedals Total….And now Josh has done it AGAIN!!!….I think I just bought a Splitter and Sum Box or whatever you call them…Oh Josh….You are the gift that keeps on giving. But my Bank account hates you….haha.
I run my dirt signal into an Old Blood Noise Endeavors Signal Blender, then use the two loops to go through different modulation – delay – reverb paths, and blend them back together. I really need a second amp, but it's working for now.
The Signal Blender maintains the clean input (in my case, dirt) unaffected, and has three volume knobs for Clean, Loop A, & Loop B. It's an amazing utility pedal. (I use the older V1 of it.)
I definitely think you should do this again and jam each time with Nick
I'm not clear on something! Where does the one output from the summing amplifier plug in?
I have a question Josh. How do pedals like the morning glory compare to the effects found on entry level modeling amplifiers such as my fender mustang? Are they somehow superior?
thanks
Theres not a knob to adjust the mix of the split? I guess most pedals already have volume knobs.
Do em perpendicular
Awesome Guys, a single parallel summer in a 3 series house spray paint black with 2i/o would come in a larger box. just sayin. And you could include baby jumpers as seen on live TV , to patch / bypass and we can be NotaNick but close maybe. Rock on
I’ve been using the boss LS-2 to do that for ages now
Because you dont want to crash.
this is fantastic. thanks guys!
Hey Josh ???????? Oh Yess ..Completely Different Sounds ????????????????????????
Can I do this with an ES-8?
Just use a mixer and run the pedals on the effects sends / returns, and you get EQ, pan, and mixer saturation as added bonuses 🙂
Bluesbreaker & an old RAT in parallel is life!
I've done this with cheap ABY pedals. Nothing's ever exploded.
Very kewl
You could do a double split, guitar into a splitter going to overdrive/distortion, then into a summing device to mono, then into another splitter with effects and then to the final summing device; repeat process as desired.
I'm confused and not at the same time. Does that mean I understand? ????
I feed two signals in parallel into separate channels on my AC15, or sometimes into separate amps. Start with a stereo chorus pedal to split the signal, then feed each channel into a different boost / distortion. Gives you four different sounds to choose from – Amp clean with Normal + Top Boost channels (lovely sound to start with), Clean (Normal) plus distortion A, Clean (Top boost) plus distortion B, Distortion A+B. Play around with a separate EQ on each channel also helps.