Re[3]: Cool JamMan tricks

[Mike.Biffle@wj.com (Mike Biffle)]

>Absolutely - I'm trying to get around that using an AB box.  BTW anybody
>know of a convenient 1U mixer?  I only need to add 2 inputs, no FX loops,
>maybe some EQ - basically the preamp from a small PA.  Anything to get the
>JM and bypass signals knotted back together again - and something more
>convenient than a flatmount mixer like the Spirit Folio.
>Michael

Hi Michael... I got snaggled up with my mailer and had to bail before I 
got into
more detail.

I have a 1U splitter / mixer by Rane. The SM26. It is a 6 channel mixeer 
which 
can be used as a splitter as well. 

It can take a stereo input signal from the main stereo inputs and that can 
be 
SENT via any of the 6 channels (each with pan control for balance of the 
input 
mix) and RETURNED to any other channel. 

With something mono like the JamMan you only use 2 of the 6 channels to do 
this.
You have convenient front panel send and return knobs which you can crank 
when 
you need to kill the input / output etc. You could feed the send to a 
volume 
pedal before it got to the JamMan so you'd have something on the floor to 
control input to the unit. This leaves you 4 more channels to use for 
other dsp 
sends or returns.

The SM26 is really basic in many ways, but it does the splitting re-mixing 
thing
differently than most of what's out there. It was the workhorse splitter / 
mixer
for most of the Bradshaw rack setups for years.

-Miko