Best Way To Split Signal To PA & Electric Guitar Amp / Sim Pedal

[hithere1]

Hello all. I am about to get ready to embark on some solo shows and as my old acoustic pickup just died I thought it may be a good time to spice my acoustic shows up.

I would like to use a bit of overdrive & pedalboard, and am curious as to if I will have to begin using a magnetic pickup. It seems to be the consensus from some different live videos such as Damien Rice & John Butler, that you use a Mag into an amp, and a Piezo clean into the Pa and the blend the two.

I was hoping to just use a Pro Jr at low volume, so feedback even with a piezo shouldn't be too big of a problem.

First question. Today I set up one clean output coming from the bypass on Boss TU-2 in Pro Tools, and another from the mono out out my Dl-4 into an Amp Sim into another channel of Pro Tools. I was hoping this would work, seemed to have phase out of time issues?

Second, could you skip the amp all together and use a Sansamp Character pedal? Does the mag seem necessary at low volumes? Could use a good pickup like an Lr Baggs Anthem and split that mono signal to a wet amp and dry Pa tone?

Perhaps I could use something like the Sparkledrive which has a blend knob and not need this whole dual setup as this article mentions.

http://www.guitarplayer.com/gear/101...ractices/60149

Here are some videos of what I am after.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg8K6_EcQNg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGe009N15tk&t=678s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnxRXJ3lGic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbU_EoMpnfc&t=406s