Reamping with the Workhorse. Radial Engineering X-Amp 500

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True to the Music

Using the ground lift switch

Both of the front panel guitar outputs on the X-Amp are transformer isolated to help eliminate hum and buzz caused by ground loops. If you hear hum or buzz, the LIFT switch disconnects the ground at the ¼” output jack to further reduce noise.

Adding a second amp

If all is good, mute output-1 by setting the on switch to the outward position, connect amp number 2 and repeat the test process. If all is good, turn both amps on. The volume controls on the X-Amp are designed to let you adjust the signal going to each amp from the comfort of your control room chair. In fact, the X-Amp’s buffered guitar outputs can easily drive a 15 meter (50 ft) cable.

Adjusting the polarity

When your two guitar amps are in phase, the sound will tend to be richer and warmer sounding. An easy way to test is to face both amps together and play low frequency bass notes. Depress the polarity reverse and listen. If out of phase, the bass will disappear.

Reamping with the X-Amp and the Workhorse

As described earlier, Reamping is a two stage process whereby you must fi rst record a clean track. This is normally done using a direct box like the Radial J48, JDV or JDI. The clean track is then played back and routed to amps via a Reamper like the X-Amp. If you have a

Workhorse, both recording and Reamping can be performed using the X-Amp. To make this work, we turned the Workhorse ¼” TRS Omniport into an instrument input. This way, you connect your guitar to the Omniport and it feeds the two ¼” front panel outputs which feed the amps. This will also send the signal to the X-Amp XLR out on the rear panel and the

Workhorse mixer.

GUITAR

OMNIPORT INPUT

X-AMP

GTR AMP

RECORDER track-1 (clean) track-2 (performance) track-3 track-4

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Using the X-Amp as a guitar distro

With a Workhorse, you can also use the Omniport (guitar level input) to feed two amps simultaneously to create a mini version of our popular Radial JD7 Injector. You can of course still capture the clean track as detailed above. The cool thing here is that when you isolate and buffer the guitar signal going to the amps and pedals, you will fi nd that in almost all cases, you will end up with a quieter setup.

GUITAR

OMNIPORT INPUT

X-AMP

RECORDER

GTR AMP

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GTR AMP

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