Scott Henderson Discussion

[dancharles]

Hi,

I've never tried a wet/dry rig but am a little confused on how to set it up.

I see that Scott runs his Suhr ISO Transformer-Isolated Line Out Box out of a speaker cabinet jack and into a rack mount effects unit. But can we use this to run into pedal effects, too?

For a wet/dry rig do I run out of my pedal effects into the effects loop input? Or into the guitar input jack on another amp?

Thank you!

Best,
Dan

[Scott Henderson]

You go out of an extra speaker jack in your main (dry) amp into the input of the line box. If your amp only has only one speaker output, the line box has a thru jack to go back to your speaker.

Then you go out of the line out jack to your FX, and plug the output of your FX into the front of another amp, where you can EQ the wet sound. I use a Fender HRD as the wet amp - since reverb and delay is such a small percentage of the sound, the wet amp can be pretty small. If you use a small amp as your main amp, your wet amp could be really small, like a Blues Junior.

It's important that your FX are set to 100% wet because you don't want dry signal in the small amp. I add a volume control between the line box and my FX, so I can control the wet/ dry mix. The line box has a volume control, so if you're going into the front of another amp, I suggest keeping it low, like around 3 or 4, so you don't overload the input of the wet amp.

Higher settings on the line box are meant for plugging it into a power amp or FX return, but then you can't EQ it, and I find the output of the line box to be very bright, so I always set the treble and presence on my HRD very low.