Bridging Channels

[aftguitar94]

Hey everyone. Sorry if this is a dumb question but i've just recently started getting educated about gear and I am very curious about a lot of things. I was wondering what exactly bridging channels does and how it can help your tone. Please help me out.

Thanks,
BK

[Austinrocks]

not sure how it helps your tone, it allows you to get more power out of the amp, two amps bridged will produce twice the power, so you can use two 50 watt amps to get 100watts, where did you see a reference to this improving tone,

[aftguitar94]

Originally Posted by Austinrocks

not sure how it helps your tone, it allows you to get more power out of the amp, two amps bridged will produce twice the power, so you can use two 50 watt amps to get 100watts, where did you see a reference to this improving tone,

I saw it on a demo of a Hiwatt Custom 100. The person demoing it plugged a patch cable from one channel to another and plugged the guitar in another input on the first channel. I think it's supposed to give you a fuller sound and more control of your tone or something but I wasn't sure.

Oh and sorry if I was confusing when I said "bridging". I'm not sure if that was the right term because I've seen it being called "jumper" as well.

[Austinrocks]

I think the hi watt 100 is similar to the marshall plexi with 2 bright and 2 normal channel inputs, you could connect to both and modify your tone,

[aftguitar94]

Originally Posted by Austinrocks

I think the hi watt 100 is similar to the marshall plexi with 2 bright and 2 normal channel inputs, you could connect to both and modify your tone,

Yeah, that's what it was. Now for my real purpose in asking this question....I am interested in getting a DRRI but I heard the Vibrato Channel makes pedals very bright and fizzy so I was wondering if I "jumper"ed the channels then could I get a more full tone from the vibrato channel to help it like pedals? Sorry if that sounds dumb but I'm new to this.

[Austinrocks]

the normal channel and the vibrato channels are very different channels, I used the normal channel of my custom vibralux which is similar to the drri for a key board or a mic, no reverb or vibrato, the vibrato has two inputs, 1 is for single coils pups and 2 is for humbuckers, though I never really bothered and used 1 which seemed to be louder, on the plexi there are 4 connectors on the amp, so you can patch the normal and bright channels, the drri has two very different channels that you really can not use together very well.

[aftguitar94]

Originally Posted by Austinrocks

the normal channel and the vibrato channels are very different channels, I used the normal channel of my custom vibralux which is similar to the drri for a key board or a mic, no reverb or vibrato, the vibrato has two inputs, 1 is for single coils pups and 2 is for humbuckers, though I never really bothered and used 1 which seemed to be louder, on the plexi there are 4 connectors on the amp, so you can patch the normal and bright channels, the drri has two very different channels that you really can not use together very well.

Yeah I've been doing some research since posting that question before and I see a lot of people are saying that the DRRI isn't really good to jumper. How bad is the vibrato channel with pedals anyway? I never got a chance to try it with pedals but a guitar straight into the amp sounded pretty damn good!

[Austinrocks]

it does not have an effects loop, so your running the pedals straight in to the amp, they talk about putting a cap in the amp to make it better with pedals, if you like the amp get it, and if you have problems you know you can fix it, of course running on channel 2 might be the better optiion, but your giving up volume when you do that, so no one will ever do that.

[rockstarjay]

It doesn't work well on reverb or vibrato amps because the extra tube changes the phase.

You need a bassman (any era) or an old shool marshall.