2 Guitars in one amp?

Hi,

Is it safe to plug in 2 (or more) guitars in one amp? I would like to jam along with friends without having to transport an amp.

Is a Y jack enough to complete the job? And if I'm playing alone, can I use it as an input to connect my ipod to (my amps do not habe an aux. input)?

Thanks a lot Greetings

Yann

sure. If you have 2 independent channels with separate inputs like a larger blackface fender its a snap... but any old tube amp should have 2 inputs even on a single channel. As a kid I would have friends over all the time and whoever played bass would use the #2 low sensitivity input of my 64 Princeton reverb and it got the job done well enough for writing. If your amp jacks 2 channels a y cable should work well enough and you can adjust the balance with your guitar controls.It will be much the same as using both inputs on a single channel where there's high and low sensitivity jacks like I mentioned. it will change the impedance loading on the instruments, but it will work. I wouldn't record that way, but it works.

I wouldn't recommend it. I an't see it doing any damage to the amp or anything, I just don't think it would sound good and I don't think the speaker will like it very much. you can share a cab by running it in series and using two different heads into it though.

Mustic is fine to play through an ampjust set the eq flat so everything is at 5

Ok thanks for the reply! No my amps do not have 2 inputs, neither channels. They are small solid state or modeling 10W amps I use to play at home.

Thanks! ok, well , I use small modeling / solid state amps , at home; all combos, so I'm not using cabs as such

depends if its a baxandall style tonestack, EQ at 5 is not flat on every amp, even solid state stuff. 5 is flat ina baxandall or "james" tone network, nothing else that is commonly used for guitar. Most guitar toneentworks are flat with everything at 10 because they strictly cut being passive in nature. The other exception besides the aforementioned baxandall type networks is the Vox AC30 top boost which is flat with both controls at zero (though only with the volume at 10 since there is a bright cap on the input of the topboost channels volume control, but hypothetically the tonestack is flat when both treble and bass are at zero)... this is not to say that the ac30 boosts signal, it appears to do so by creating a midrange notch that is adjust in Q and center frequency by the position of the treble and bass controls. If you change 1 resistor it will behave like a tweed fender or Marshall and "flat" will be all controls at 10.

hey xyez, why not flip the script on this and do like me, run 1 guitar through 2 amps?

Yeah.... 2 amps would be awesome! I have this sick dream of two AC30's and running my effects in stereo. I could peel paint with a setup like that!

That sick dream is MY rig. Though sans effects these days. But 2 ac30s or an ac30 and a matchless. Its a powerful, wide and 3d sound. I like to set one for light od and the other (a modern one) at 1/2 power pushed into full bore poweramp clipping. Spread the cabs widefor an obscenely good time.

Oh yes that's a great idea as well! Do you conect them simply by splitting in 2 the jack cable out of the guitar thanks to a Y adapter? And which one should I combine (as long as they're not all at the same place)?

welp, depending on the tone I want I daisy chain them using the 2 inputs per channel OR I use my radial ABY box

also, beware of ground loops, some guitar amps don't daisy chain nicely (this means bridging channels between 2 different amps, going into input 1 of amp 1, then connecting input 2 of amp 1 to input 1 of amp 2 which is how the 70s hard rock acts would slave their walls of amrshalls prior to the JCM800 series which can't do that because the inputs are not wired in parallel) and also will not work together with a simple Y cable like Pete Townshend used to use. Most modern amps get on well though.