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GuyLaCroix wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2025 12:43 pm Y'all are kind of scaring me off with the possibility of nuking a head or 3.

I think I trust the other guys more than myself, and it's easy to put up my 400$ Carvin but might be a different question for the 5150s and Mesas these guys have. I'd feel awful if I fried one, and I don't need that kind of heat this early in a babyface run.
Ha. If you trust them then that's awesome and either option will work. The patch bay is the most elegant solution. The junction box is *slightly* more simple. Really we're talking about two sides of the same coin as they are both patch boxes but either is gonna involve 1) needing 8 labeled speaker cables and 2) building something that can handle the power.
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You can skip the step of building anything by just buying two m-to-f speaker extension cables and leaving them plugged into the respective cabinets. Tell every guitar player to buy a speaker cable for every head that's long enough to make whatever connection is necessary and leave it plugged in. Go apeshit with the label maker.
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If the only real issue is the inconvenience of digging around behind the cabinet for the jack, you just need to find a way to physically move the jack somewhere more convenient. I would just gaffer tape the extension cord to the top or side of the cab or whatever makes sense.

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mdc wrote: Tue Jun 24, 2025 10:42 am You can skip the step of building anything by just buying two m-to-f speaker extension cables and leaving them plugged into the respective cabinets. Tell every guitar player to buy a speaker cable for every head that's long enough to make whatever connection is necessary and leave it plugged in. Go apeshit with the label maker.
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If the only real issue is the inconvenience of digging around behind the cabinet for the jack, you just need to find a way to physically move the jack somewhere more convenient. I would just gaffer tape the extension cord to the top or side of the cab or whatever makes sense.
Boom that would do it!
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mdc wrote: Tue Jun 24, 2025 10:42 am You can skip the step of building anything by just buying two m-to-f speaker extension cables and leaving them plugged into the respective cabinets. Tell every guitar player to buy a speaker cable for every head that's long enough to make whatever connection is necessary and leave it plugged in. Go apeshit with the label maker.
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If the only real issue is the inconvenience of digging around behind the cabinet for the jack, you just need to find a way to physically move the jack somewhere more convenient. I would just gaffer tape the extension cord to the top or side of the cab or whatever makes sense.
Only 25% of the guitarists I’ve played with would catastrophically screw something up with a situation like this.
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Nate Dort wrote: Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:09 pm This is nightmare fuel for me. All it takes is somebody screwing up a connection where two amps are connected to a cab simultaneously and you blow up the output stage of one or more amps.
Yep, would turn into a "did I leave the burner on?" type situation all the time.
mdc wrote: You can skip the step of building anything by just buying two m-to-f speaker extension cables and leaving them plugged into the respective cabinets. Tell every guitar player to buy a speaker cable for every head that's long enough to make whatever connection is necessary and leave it plugged in. Go apeshit with the label maker.

If the only real issue is the inconvenience of digging around behind the cabinet for the jack, you just need to find a way to physically move the jack somewhere more convenient. I would just gaffer tape the extension cord to the top or side of the cab or whatever makes sense.
Add in bright color-coded cables, and I'd get closer to being able to sleep at night without washing my hands three times before powering on.

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Okay, I love the sound of my TB2000, but sometimes during parts of a song I'd like to get something like what it sounds like with the tone knob rolled down and/or switched to the neck pickup, but without any volume loss, but then able to get back to the normal sound in an instant. I'm assuming an EQ pedal is the best thing to do this, but I'm open to anything else.

Sometimes I wish I just had a crazy switcher like Steve Von Till where I could control the pickup selection and tone selection from my feet but that seems insane at this point.
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tallchris wrote: Okay, I love the sound of my TB2000, but sometimes during parts of a song I'd like to get something like what it sounds like with the tone knob rolled down and/or switched to the neck pickup, but without any volume loss, but then able to get back to the normal sound in an instant. I'm assuming an EQ pedal is the best thing to do this, but I'm open to anything else.

Sometimes I wish I just had a crazy switcher like Steve Von Till where I could control the pickup selection and tone selection from my feet but that seems insane at this point.
you could just make a pedal with a pot and a cap (and maybe a resistor) that switches that into the circuit. Hell, find where you like with the pot have a switch and wire in a resistor instead of a pot and you have a one switch "The Duller" pedal.

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