Running a stereo guitar thru a mono amp?

[PowerChordHack]

Can a stereo guitar be easily run thru a mono amp?

I saw a stereo LP (no varitone) at a pawn shop that had only one output jack.
Plugging in a mono cord into a DR got the bridge pup only.

Is there an easy way to plug that thing into a single channel amp and have it behave as a standard guitar?

[dharmafool]

No. You need a 2-channel amp. Don't DRs have two channels?

You also need a Y-cable (aka insert cable) in which the stereo signal from the guitar output is split into two channels. Each channel controls one pickup. You need this cable configuration whether you are playing in mono or stereo.

A more sturdy setup is a hardwired junction box that splits the guitar's TRS stereo output to two mono output jacks. www.loop-master.com makes these.

To hear both pickups in a single channel, the guitar has to be wired for mono TS output.

[PowerChordHack]

Opps. I meant Princeton, not Deluxe.

This guy runs a series of Ys into a single channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xX-4H1lEBc

I'm not following the logic behind the second Y being all stereo...

[Zero]

It was easy with my Ripley (before I took the electronics out of it). I panned each string to the left and used a mono cord. Functioned like a regular old mono guitar. Not sure of the guitar you have, if it has panning.

[cc9cii]

This one? (link)

[rob2001]

Pardon my ignorance, but how is a guitar stereo? I think "stereo" is a function of the amplification. I guess I don't understand.

[Jef Bardsley]

A "stereo" guitar sends one pickup to each amp.

The problem is, a mono plugs shorts out the second pickup.

[PowerChordHack]

There we go!

I looked at like 20 online music gear sellers with no luck.
I didn't even think of trying Battery Shack.

Thanks!

I'm gonna go back and take another look at that Lester...

Originally Posted by cc9cii

This one? (link)

[Zero]

Originally Posted by rob2001

Pardon my ignorance, but how is a guitar stereo? I think "stereo" is a function of the amplification. I guess I don't understand.

In the case of a Ripley guitar the output is stereo and you have a pan pot for each string. The pickup is a Bartolini hex stereo pickup(s). You plug a stereo cord from the guitar to a L/R splitter box, then into two amps. You can pan each string accordingly, whether it be one string on each side or EADGBE slowly panning from left to right.

[Denyle_Guitars]

Originally Posted by PowerChordHack

Is there an easy way to plug that thing into a single channel amp and have it behave as a standard guitar?

Cut off one end of a guitar cable and solder on a TRS (stereo) 1/4 plug. Connect the shield to the sleeve and connect the conductor to both tip & ring. Remember to use the stereo plug on the guitar end, not the amp.
Don't waste your money on a cheap molded radio shack adapter. But if you do, this is the one you'd need: http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...lickid=prod_cs

[cc9cii]

I guess it depends on which end of the cable the adaptor goes ;-)

But since most people would have a mono cable that one with stereo plug might be best. By the way it may be cheap but that doesn't mean bad. I've had one for years and it is still going strong.

[walterw]

the old stereo gibsons had the pickups out of polarity with each other, supposedly because they were made to go into the two channels of a fender amp, which are also reversed polarity from each other.

if you sum the two pickups together, you'll get that thin, nasally "out-of-phase" sound.

the "fix" for these guitars is to flip over the magnet in one of the pickups. (flip it back, actually, to how the other pickup, and normal gibson pickups, are set.)