Looking for a good AB/Y Box. Any suggestions?

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hey Diezelheads!!

Im looking for a good AB/Y box to run my Herbie & VH4 together. Any ideas from you guys?? Has to be quiet like a mouse..the one i have is noisy as sin!!!

Terry (Duolos) recommended the Radial Tonebone AB/Y. i am leaning towards that...unless.... :D
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spanks!!!
 
I am telling you Pauly, the Radial JX2 is aces. Been using it for a long time and it works wonderful. All Radial stuff is great IMO. I have tried several products and nothing came close to the Radial. :thumbsup:
 
ok Terry...i ordered one. If i dont like it...im coming to Tn & you & me are gonna wrestle!!! :lol: :LOL:
 
Hmmmm, :confused: you mentioned the Tone bone which is crap. Ive seen dozens of em die out on the road. It seems as though Terry is actually recommending you the RADIAL products which are much better but I'm not sure which model he is recommending. they don't have a Jx2 on their site. Ive used a JD7 which is overkill for your application but was great.


IMO the Lehle stuff has sweeter sounding transformers though you def pay a premium.
 
the JX2 is on their site. Im gonna give it a whirl. Terry has never steered me wrong before. He knows i am quite finicky!! :doh:
 
Ah yeah I see, it its not on the radial site because its a Tonebone. I thought it was one of the actual Radials. Good luck with it.
 
Radial JX-2 Switchbone PRO

Black box, red white and blue lettering...best I have tried.

Ground - Lift or on
Polarity - 180 or 0
Switch Select - Gain, mid only, mute
Mid boost - 10 db, 5db, OFF
Foot Switches on top are Both, Toggle (1,2), Boost with the input on the right side next to the boost button.
15vdc, tuner, out 2, out 1, gain, drag are the frontal options. Good pedal indeed
 
Lehle is an alternative switcher, but don´t have an US link
 
Thats what i got!! :lol: :LOL: i better like it....for $70 in Next Day Air charges... :lol: :LOL: :doh: :doh: :gethim:
 
Little Labs or Lehle

Read very careful before choosing a model, make sure the channels are transformer isolated & have ground lifts, otherwise noise is very likely to happen. If this is for a studio I'd recommend looking at the PCP unit.
 
Its for live performance. thanks for all the input guys!! :thumbsup:
 
You don't need an ABY

Input guitar cable into VH4 and thru to the Herbert

Hook up one MIDI controller to the VH4 and MIDI thru to the Herbert. This will control both amps with one board. Make one patch mute the Herbert when the vh4 is on. Make another patch mute the vh4 when the Herbert. Make one patch have both amps on. I have the program change make the muted amp go to the clean channel too so there's not excess hum noise.
 
Pauley ----> too late as it looks like you got the Radial product. I had one of those but thought it was a POS. The switch lasted all of about a month and I didn't think it isolated very well on high gain amps. It is pretty much the same as most others. As nbarts said, the Lehle is the way to go. Made in Germany, built like a tank and quiet as a mouse. I use the P=Split around the house and could use it live, but haven't yet. The Split has no switches and is always on. Has ground lift and phasing switching. The Lehle 1 to 3 switchers, which are also Midi capable are probably the best unit on the market in a decent price range. I have a really high end piece of studio equipment from Little Labs, called a PCP Distro. It is a 3 in/3 out or 3 in/5 out depending on the tasks and is rack mounted. But its only a splitter and not a switcher.

Someone mentioned running through the VH4 into the Herbert. You are going to have some grounding issues and worse, phasing issues that you cannot control.

Keep your receipts for the TB and grab a Lehle. Plus, they are made in Germany.


Steve
 
Framptone 3-Banger from Robert Keeley. Very clean with ground lift switches per A,B,C
 
tonebone and lehe are both quite good...Ive used the tonebone before( to switch between an einstien and a shiva), and it works fine,but it seems to me that theres an awful lot of "extra" knobs and switches just for an a/b y box, but it does work....The lehe is a notch above imo.
 
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