I want to experiment with recording 1 guitar through 2 different physical amp simulators at the same time. The only means I have to do this at the moment, is to put a simple splitting jack -< on the output of my 7 band graphic eq pedal(which is pre-everything), effectively giving it 2 outputs to then feed the amp sims.
As I'm sure you're all aware, these pedals have adjustable level, so I figured in my little layman brain that I can compensate with that.
But suspect there's more to it than that...because obviously these pricey D.I./splitters are made for a reason. And I'd expect recommendations to use these. But why? For those that know about the real workings of signal processing, why is my idea not ideal?... as I assume it isn't. Is it just basically degradation?
I really don't have much choice but to do it this way, but I'm interested to know exactly what's going on, and why I should probably look into dedicated devices if I want to do this sort of thing.
On a related note, are normal guitar leads still perfectly appropriate once the signal starts to get manipulated by different things in the chain?
As I'm sure you're all aware, these pedals have adjustable level, so I figured in my little layman brain that I can compensate with that.
But suspect there's more to it than that...because obviously these pricey D.I./splitters are made for a reason. And I'd expect recommendations to use these. But why? For those that know about the real workings of signal processing, why is my idea not ideal?... as I assume it isn't. Is it just basically degradation?
I really don't have much choice but to do it this way, but I'm interested to know exactly what's going on, and why I should probably look into dedicated devices if I want to do this sort of thing.
On a related note, are normal guitar leads still perfectly appropriate once the signal starts to get manipulated by different things in the chain?
