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Originally Posted by markchatwin  Yeh Steve - I'm beginning to think that there is no splitter that doesn't color the sound in some way. Jonathan at Little labs basically said that you must learn to like the new tone that is created by these devices as well as the new world that these devices open up with splitting, reamping, DIing, etc.. In fact when you read the companies descriptions of their splitter devices you won't find words like, "Recreates the original tone of your guitar plugged straight into your amp". You won't find, "totally uncolored" in their descriptions.
When you speak with the top dogs like:
Vrtacic
Radial
J at Little Labs
Bob Bradshaw
they all say that you "MUST" use high end transformers. But Lucas Deceiver and Creation's Audio MW1 reps have said their products, because of their designs, don't need any. The MW1 is not sold as a splitter anyways. It can be used as a splitter but it is designed as a studio tool for guitar players and engineers to track, reamp and be able to tweek tones along the way. Terry at Compass Point Studios, who invented the Deceiver, couldn't really tell me technically how the Lucas Deceiver split the signal but he did say that transformers weren't used. Burkhard Lehle said you need a second device, such as his Sunday Driver, to correct the tonal change that his P-Split causes.
I'm still going to try and find one that does the job to my ear's satisfaction... |
I'm no pro, but I think the coolest thing abou the MW1 is that it has enough versatility that you should be able to dial in YOUR amp tone. Whatever change or color you feel has occurred from running the signal through it should be able to be reversed by the impedence and clean boost knobs. Personally, I think it's made my amps sound better than they did.