HOW TO GET HUGE STEREO FX TONES! Featuring the KOMET AMBIKAB JR.
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2020
- The Komet Ambikab Jr. allows for an easy way to create a full stereo Wet/Dry/Wet guitar rig! For info: www.kometamps.com/products/amb...
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I’ve done stereo onstage, loading an amp down, into fractal, out to stereo power amp, out to 2 2x12 cabs on opposite sides of stage…….IT WAS AWSOME, once you have had a stereo image cranked up onstage, you really dont want to go back to mono, its super addictave…
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You had some real Steve Vai moments in there... it was still totally Pete, but a little bit Steve too.
I was thinking the same
Man I was totally thinking the same thing. Great playing yet again Pete! Especially at 0:51 - just WOW!!!!!
Beautiful, Pete! Hey, UA-cam world, let's get this man to 200k already!!
Thanks!
I've been doing this for 25 years, having discovered that effects ruined the pure Marshal sound. But, I don't use the second amp out. I use the send on the effects loop through my effects.module at 100% wet, to a rack tube amp, then to 2 twin Celection cabs. Beautiful.
That would be a cool video to see...
My God that intro track was... well, lets just say it was equally pleasing to both my soul and my ears.
Another W/D/W method: loadbox, IR cabsim, split to DI box for dry out, signal continues to stereo fx, then out through L and R DI boxes. It all fits on a pedalboard!
Now that is a solution !
My problem, back in the 80’s was playing tap delays for hours on a Quadraverb instead of concentrating on my playing !
Long live the QUADRAVERB!
So good, thanks for sharing Pete! Love it
Pete, you are the best “splainer” even a guy like me could understand 👍🏻
So,,, it starts out with some echoey sqwibbles and the whammy doodad thing, then it sneaks up with this smoothly distorted snuggle, then it goes into this clean squirrel out followed by the clean stumble, and then bam you're into this Predator Drive Groove..... then it ends with the clean nighty night. I'm in dude. I'm totally in. Made my drive home from work pretty nice. Thanks!👍
Excellent job Pete sounds amazing!
Wow!!! Awesome tone Pete! And awesome playing, as usual!
W/D/W is the ultimate setup. Anyone who tries it, or just hears it, realizes instantly what an impact that dry channel can make. The sound is just HUGE. The natural attack and clarity add a lot of punch. Like you say, the problem is all of the equipment and floor space you would need to build one. ESPECIALLY if you're going for an effective stereo spread.
W/D/W really needs a dedicated room or large space. This is an interesting new addition to clean things up. Having a Fractal Axe-Fx3/FM3 unit does make switching, routing, and control a lot easier too. Offers almost endless I/O and modifier options.
@TacoTacoTacoTaco WTF are you talking about? Do you understand the concept?
3 cabinets. Players have been setting up W/D/W in their homes since the 80's. It can be done with 3 cheap amps, a splitter, and a single stereo delay. There are endless options. Nothing is pointless, and the AF3 doesn't magically grant it's owners a physical stereo spread with a 100% dry channel without 3 PHYSICAL SPEAKERS, genius. This is with respect to home use, not live. Just as is demonstrated in the video you just watched.
Thanks Pete, Great Demo on this cab and helpful info as well.
Great tunes and playing Pete - very impressive sounds.
Really straight forward man. Thanks!
Great info in there, There's a real science to all this. Also makes me appreciate all the tone/effects chasers. Awesome, Thanks!
Love this guys playing awesome
Always count on learning something from Mr Pete . Thank u sir . Love the channel
Awesome intro. As always. The clean tone are stunning.
Man the rabbit hole goes deep on this one! Great tune Pete it almost leaves you lusting for ambiance👍👍👍👍
Outstanding! Thanks Pete! And thanks to Hogy et. al. at Komet!!
I love the feeling you get when you know you have a great sound and it elevates your playing. Great playing and explanation as usual Pete 🎸🎸🎸
Lovely blend of playing techniques and dynamics as always. Loved the melodious arpeggios at 12:52, and you still find a way to completely rip. You’re a very inspiring musician. Thanks for sharing and constantly showing your continuing passion and growth.
Great gear. Even greater playing. One of the finest contemporary players I can think of. Always tasteful, not repeating himself, a very musical treat. Love that single track analysis. Makes stealing those fine licks much easier :)
Thanks!
What a womderfull tone !!!!
Pete, that rotary effect = icing on the cake. Great sound!
Those FM3 effects sound incredible with that rig, killer stuff.
Awesome song to go along with the lush sounds. It should be on your next album. Love it Pete.
Hi Pete. Listening your music and videos makes me play more and more. You are amazing!!!
Beautiful sounds, great playing and great video as usual !
I once used a cheap Mackie mixer and dry mic on one speaker then used the effects loop of Mackie to send to PA and had an amazing tone with my Eventides in stereo
Wowsers that opening track!!! Great video Pete
OMG. That's so awesome. You blew this up beautifully, as usual. There is some Adrian Belew sounds and whammy work. Love it.
Great Demo, great sounds and playing. Man I've got to look into this more, my WDW rig is just too complicated. Thanks
Amazing clean sound! looks like a great product to reduce clutter and complexity
loved the tremolo work!
Very informative video, on top of the incredible tasty and powerful playing. A new video from Pete is always a great way to start the day.
As always love your shows brother, have learned a lot from watching, thanks
I’ve played guitar for more than 20 years, but Pete makes me fell that I have a lot to learn. Thanks, Pete!
Very timely video. I'm experimenting with two IRTX extension cabs rather than Ambikab. Really useful information here. Thanks Pete.
Absolutely love your sound and playing.
Thank u!
I'm super glad you're able to make a living from playing your guitar because you definitely put time into mastering your craft. There are so many people with UA-cam channels now claiming to be professional and they are not ..but sir you definitely are and I appreciate everything that you do on your channel.
Thanks Jimmie!
@@PeteThorn by the way I was the one who asked you the question about if you've ever reviewed a fender prosonic the other day and asked if you knew anyone who can help me mod it out. You referred me to Dave Friedman. I got a hold of him through his email and he said he can't do any modifications on the fender prosonic because of Bruce Zinky design. Its a very special amp for sure.
I finally got myself a Boss GT-1000 for home bedroom playing and this video really helped me create an amazing sound without spending a lot of extra $$ on amps/cab. Thank you so much for all your gear lessons!
One of the more gorgeous pieces you've made for the channel! Sweet!
Thanks!
Great video as always. Thanks for all the effort you put in to your channel, Pete!
...and definitely nailed the 'balance era' tones!
Thank you for clearly explaining this (somewhat complicated for some of us) setup in a way that was NOT guitar snobby
Mad Steve Vai vibes 👌🏾
I dig this video Pete. Thanks for taking the time to explain. I have two Bogners and sometimes run wet/dry or sometimes even throw my avalanche run through one head effects loop and my thermae through the other.
I dial them differently for whatever I'm doing, and I absolutely feel like I'm a pioneer of soundscapes through the guitar. Your sound here is so sonically rich! I've always wondered about these cabs.
Additionally, for the first 31 years of my playing I only had a Les Paul and my first guitar was a yamaha SBG 2000...this past month I purchased a Mario Martin Strat! Man...what an incredible range of tones and I am having all kinds of new pathways with the vibrato arm. Hearing your strat tones here and just kind of observing is very helpful.
I really enjoy your videos and I've learned the answer to many questions just by tuning in and listening. Thanks!
This cab might just be exactly what I’m looking for. Awesome concept.
Thank you for the video. Yes - always experimenting with "auxing" out to fx is a life long pursuit --at least it has been for me. Just a thought: if you ever feel compelled, diagrams may also be helpful. Will check out this great product you have demoed so well.
Damn, Pete. I just love your playing and tunes. I only wish they were longer!
Everything you do is so musical! Sounds great man!
Thanks so much!
Always love you're playing Pete, But this one went over and above. Truly inspiring. Thanks man.
Thank u!
Interesting cab with the line out built in. I actually thought about building a small cabinet like that with my suhr iso line out and a small stereo mosfet power amp mounted inside. Track was definitely very Vai-ish. Very cool stuff Pete. Thanks for uploading.
I have thought of using a cab for dry on top of my stereo 4x12 to do the same. I have been using 3 1x12 cabs. Semi-open cabs in the stereo positions and a sealed center 1x12. This is a very cool idea.
I have a 1963 Ampeg Satellite Reverb head that is a similar in concept but old tech. Heard it for the first time at Bukovac's shop and it was stunning!! I imagine this rig takes it to the next level!
Great video Man!
You are the best!
Another killer video, thanks for the wet dry wet demo.
Terrific video, as a big user of stereo effect (and I'm a stereo freak), this Ambikab seems to be a better idea than my two heads and two cabs and sometime ground problems!! As usual great song. :)
Great intro Pete!
awesome video, thanks Pete.
Damn, I wish my studio was as well equipped as yours ... lucky guy 🤍
I'm blown away by your creativity, by your compositions...
thanks! I just try and have fun!
Reminds me of a piece Harry Cody played on the first Stu Hamm's Kings of sleep.
Pete you are the best guitarist out there love anything you post 😎 bro
Had such an awesome 80's instrumentalist vibe.
Pete that was awesome man. You need to put that down as a track man. You really have a great ear for finding killer tones.
Amazing as usual!!
Yeah. Id have busted out of my seat for that part too. 💥💥💥
I have a custom T with your thornbuckers on them- fantastic pickups - sound great into a stereo amp set up. I’m an older musician so I’ve had the luxury of collecting quite a few guitars over the years. I keep going back to the Suhrs. I think if I only had to take a couple guitars to anything, maybe my oldest Tele and a Suhr Custom T with your thorns on them, nice job on the design. The Suhr modern also sounds great in stereo , very chimey. Love your channel 👍
Awesome Pete!!!
Ok Pete this is a great video! I had to watch it three times and listen carefully on how you explained the signal path of Wet/Dry/Wet really works. However is there any chance you can do a video of and how this can all be done as far as signal chain or plug and play using a rack mount mixer, the old school way, as I think a lot of us have some this kind of gear laying around. Very good video. Thank you.
Outstanding video. Great playing, great music and awesome tones 👌 just need to make space for the Abikab now 😂
i just discovered the wet dry wet sound . i bought a couple 5 watt solid state amps and im running them into a stereo 4x10 cab. it has the nicest clean amp sound ive ever owned with just a bit of stereo reverb mixed in . i have a marshal 1x12 combo sitting on top of that for my lead/crunchy tone and i use a pan pedal to go between my stereo clean and my mono crunch/lead sound. after watching this video im going to see about hooking my lead tone up like you have in this video wet dry wet ,while keeping my clean stereo tone the same as i have it now.
Huge...Phat...Melodic madness....and I like it
This is a video I really needed. Great product! BTW, as always .... another ungodly opener!
Pretty cool cab Pete! Beats the hell out of separate components rig!
That was incredibly cool
The way I do my wet/dry/wet thing to get that similar tone is that i Run my gain and front hitting stuff like wah, whammy, compressor, eq, overdrive and mxr5150 distortion into a boss stereo volume pedal, one out to a clean combo amp(this is the dry signal) and the other output from the volume(wich contains my gain stuff too) to a tc corona chorus and go stereo into a flashback inputs and go stereo into a boss dd7 inputs and then going stereo into a other 2 clean amp combos and it gets a stereo chorus and delays individual signal lines and ping pong panning stuff so yeah, it's a wet dry wet rig and the splitter is the volume pedal, pretty huge sounding and if I want dry I just turn the volume off, I am a big fan of yours Pete! Greetings to everyone😁🤘
My new favorite episode!
yo Pete .. i use a Bray line out box just like the Suhr, to bring my dry Marshall 800 sound thru some digi.fx & out to 2 clean amps. i don't run the fx 100% wet, but there's no phase issues 2 speak of. even at semi high volume. : )
I have an Ampeg VH140C that is the Olde Skoole version of the Ambikab.
Cool video Pete! I have all that rack gear, but just like you said, it's a LOT of stuff! It's okay in a studio if it's your studio, but I wouldn't want to haul it around.
I'll have to check out one of those cabs.
I would like to see how you would do this set up with the Suhr Hombre instead of the PT 15. I'm betting that would be killer!
That sounded quite Rush like in parts, Pete. Very nice!
That sounds unreal 🤟
Outstanding.... but solve this riddle. Wet dry wet in a "evh balance / 5150 " implimentation..... (in the mix) I know we can do it on the stage. And in the daw... But in the Daw and in the mix? AND with vocals? The band? Now that's a magic trick I would like to see.
Great video as always Pete. Price tag on that Ambikab is huge like the tones you can get. Toss in price for a used FM3 and we are looking north of $3500. That being said, there are so many nice boutique amps without effects loops (Dr Z, Divided by 13) that this may be the best solution.
You look like you had a blast filming this video! Must have sounded amazing in the room! Very clearly explained Pete!
Thank u!
Pete, all that Suhr gear. You lucky so and so!
Nice idea. But as I already have a pair of +30 years old 4x10 Marshall cabs and picked up a used Marshall Valvestate 8008 stereo power amp, I am good. The cool thing being I am now again using those cabs that have bin in hibernation for too long.
Man,that whammy work was awesome.
I just got an FM3 and a Fryette Power Station 2...I am assuming I could do the same thing with it?Send the line out of the PS2 to the FM3,then out to a power amp....or use one of these cabs?
Can you just take the Fractal stereo outputs and run the into a powered cab or PA using one of the amp models and IR with wet effects? Split the guitar signal at the board and run one into tube amp and the other signal into the Fractal.
Damn Petey...I thought I needed a haircut. Cheers. Good stuff.
Hi Pete ! Great video! at 4:42 what cable do you use to connect from Send of effects unit ( FM3) to L and R Return of AmbiKab??
Some great info there Pete. People how has Pete only 198k subs??
Damn that was some sweet stuff.
I love to record rhythm guitar in stereo when recording in my home studio so this is very interesting. For playing live (remember that?), running things in stereo doesn't really work since you can't depend on the venue's soundman to utilize the stereo signal, UNLESS you're playing on level professionally where you have your own soundman (which I have experienced in a few bands). PS - I just noticed you have a Lab Series L5 in the corner. I'd love to get another one of those (I owned one back in the late 70's/early 80's).
Fun! Thx