Two channel pre-amp blenders?

[drive-south]

My mixer usually is the FOH. I play small venues so no large PA and no sound man.

Larry, the PZ PRE does allow you to blend the 2 channels. There is a switch accessed through a hole in the chassis with a paper clip to select between blend or single source.

[ljguitar]

Originally Posted by drive-south

My mixer usually is the FOH. I play small venues so no large PA and no sound man.

Larry, the PZ PRE does allow you to blend the 2 channels. There is a switch accessed through a hole in the chassis with a paper clip to select between blend or single source.

Hi d-s

I'll make note of that. It still doesn't provide phantom power back to an internal microphone.

[christian_t]

I’m not sure the Vintage Revolution Acoustic Box II has been mention here before. But I think it’s a great little box!

https://youtu.be/5p_kZ_3_HEU

[Howard Emerson]

Originally Posted by christian_t

I’m not sure the Vintage Revolution Acoustic Box II has been mention here before. But I think it’s a great little box!

https://youtu.be/5p_kZ_3_HEU

Christian,
That REALLY is a nice unit, and my guess at the price was way high! At 749 Euros it's incredibly fair!

Very nicely demonstrated with just about every question answered at some point during the demo.

It doesn't appear to be set up for a TRS 1/4" input which is what us old timers preferred, but whatever......

Thank you for the heads-up!

Regards,
Howard Emerson

[rschultz]

Helix does great at the dual channel mixing thing. Been using Helix as my only pedal now for about 2+ years. Never going back to pedals/preamps.

[varmonter]

Originally Posted by Cuki79

I bet few people know this:
Vintage Revolution Acoustic Box
https://www.vintage-revolution.com/acousticbox

this looks like a nice rig.. they have the
ABOX2 now.

[anteater01]

Originally Posted by buzzardwhiskey

They're not as sexy or professional looking, but the two channel mixers such Yamaha's MG06X and Mackie's ProFX4v2 would probably do a great job.

Are there any phasing issues if I go down this route? For example, if I have Taylor ES2 and LR Baggs lyric?

[Doug Young]

Originally Posted by anteater01

Are there any phasing issues if I go down this route? For example, if I have Taylor ES2 and LR Baggs lyric?

Any time you combine two sources there will be some phase interaction. That's actually part of what you often want in dual source setups. There can be many reasons to combine pickups, but one is to get more "complexity" in the sound, mimicing all the phase interaction your guitar has acoustically. Some pickups sounds good together, some don't, and part of that may be whether the phase interaction produces a pleasing result or not. I have no idea about those 2 pickups specifically. I recall having an issue with something - I think it was a RareEarth and K&Ks, where the sound summed to mono seemed thinner than either source alone, which wasn't what I was going for!

[jamison162]

I know this is an old thread, but here's an update.

Current List:
Grace Design Felix (Gain and EQ on both channels)
K&K Dual Channel / Trinity Pro (Uses one TRS, Gain only on both channels)
K&K Quantum Blender (Gain and EQ on both channels)
LR Baggs Mixpro (Uses one TRS, Gain on both channels, adjustable low cut on the ring side, No XLR out)
Radial Tonebone PZ-Pre (Gain on both channels, EQ only on summation)
Red Eye Twin (Gain and "simple tone control" on both channels)
Sound Devices MixPre-D (Gain only on both channels)
UltraSound DI Max Stereo (Gain and EQ on both channels)
Schertler Yellow Blender
Acoustic Image Flex 2
Vintage Revolution Acoustic Box II

New 2-Channel Preamps:
Elite Acoustics StompMix 4 or 6
NV Tone Duo (2019)
Sunn Audio MS-2 (2020)
Radial PZ-Pro (2020/TBD)

No longer available (used market only):
Headway EDB-1 or EDB-2 (Gain on both channels, EQ only on summation)
Pick Up The World Stereo Power Plug Blender Preamp (Gain only on both channels)
D-TAR Solstice (Gain and EQ on both channels)
Presonus Acousti-Q
Raven Labs PMB II
Pendulum SPS-1
Rane AP-13

[Cuki79]

Originally Posted by jamison162

I know this is an old thread, but here's an update.

What about Boxking PA-03?



link to Boxking website

and Hotone A-station



or the AER dual Mix 2

[rschultz]

Seems like the ART dual pre would work, has phantom power for $100