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Jake wrote:Try contacting Peper's Pedals on Facebook. He built me an ABY box with bi-colour LEDs and a high quality hot-pink paint job for way cheaper than anything else out there.

https://www.facebook.com/PepersPedals/

Totally recommend this guy if you ever want a clone of anything built, very reasonable rates and a nice dude. I have an OCD clone from him that kicks ass

i always rep tony first but my understanding is he's taking a break from building to catch up on other things.

I use a Morley ABY twin mix (active) splitter on my pedal board. Does 'unity gain' (as well as cleanish boost).

Mine was NZ$137 incl shipping on Amazon. I give it 5 gold Stars*.

https://www.amazon.com/MORLEY-ABY-Mix-M ... B003AIM6GK

http://www.morleypedals.com/aby-mix-mixer-combiner/

* #1 Its an active splitter that can go from 'unity' gain to clean boost on either (or both) channel(s)
* #2 It can be used with either 1 input going to 1 or 2 outputs or 2 inputs going to 1 or 2 outputs
* #3 It's in a rugged metal enclose that can take lots of stomping on
* #4 The current draw is about 2mA (centre -ve 9VDC power supply or battery)
* #5 It's still made in the USA but its cheap as chips

There you go

JHorner wrote:

mugamee wrote:

JHorner wrote:I used to reply to this question with:

Radial bigshot ABY v1 can be had relatively cheap on reverb.

But it looks like that's not true anymore, especially with current exchange rates.

yeah. found one on TM $190; brand new though. Well if theyr'e that good, should be worth it right?

I had one of them radial loopers a decade ago and seem to remember it being really sturdy.

But yeah, still will entail a lot of cash.

I'll sell you mine for a hundred. I'm not doing stereo amps right now.

Jump on this. Radial make awesome tour grade stuff.

tubeswell wrote:I use a Morley ABY twin mix (active) splitter on my pedal board. Does 'unity gain' (as well as cleanish boost).

Mine was NZ$137 incl shipping on Amazon. I give it 5 gold Stars*.

https://www.amazon.com/MORLEY-ABY-Mix-M ... B003AIM6GK

http://www.morleypedals.com/aby-mix-mixer-combiner/

* #1 Its an active splitter that can go from 'unity' gain to clean boost on either (or both) channel(s)
* #2 It can be used with either 1 input going to 1 or 2 outputs or 2 inputs going to 1 or 2 outputs
* #3 It's in a rugged metal enclose that can take lots of stomping on
* #4 The current draw is about 2mA (centre -ve 9VDC power supply or battery)
* #5 It's still made in the USA but its cheap as chips

There you go

The specs look really good but oh boy, that looks like a considerable pedal board space i was also looking at the more basic aby from morley the other day.

Yeah it’s ginormous but I don’t use many pedals live and mainly always use 2 amps so it’s a must have for me. What I like about active splitters is there’s no signal insertion loss, and on this one you can dial in the clean level for both amps on the fly

I'm no expert but I've heard that the basic ABY pedal can be a bit risky with multiple amps, and the ones with ground lift are a necessity?

I used to have a radial bigshot and can recommend it, the only downside was the no leds so you didn't know what was toggled on by looking.

I have a radial big shot ABY, would recommend that for as basic as youd want to go. tried the Leem, was stupid amounts of noise. Still some with the Radial, but i use a lot of gain which is noisy anyway, just a bit noisier with both going.
The newer Radial has LED's, one was floating around TM a while back, think its the "Bones" series or somethin.

Ground loops are potentially a show stopper with ABY pedals.
You can avoid ground loop noise:
-using an ungrounded amp (potential death trap although technically it is still grounded through the signal cabling)
-cutting the ground wire in one of the pedal outputs (assuming isolated jacks), or using a cable with the ground detached at one end of the cable
-using an ABY with an isolating transformer inside it ($)

An active ABY with buffered outputs (like the Morley twin above) is practically immune to ground loop hum and signal insertion loss. But then again, you pay more ...

So i took the plunge and bought jhorner's (thanks) radial aby switch...happy to report that all is well in the amp splitting land at home no hum, no phase issues whatsoever--i didnt have to use the pedal's features...but happy to have them in the future just in case:)

Bit late to the party, but I have a 3 amp splitter I no longer need. Was going to chuck it on TM for $50 but haven't got round to it yet, feel free to PM me if anyone's keen. Will ship for free.