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I am looking for ideas and suggestions to achieve more or less the following:
What?
- setup = a failsafe/foolproof and extremely convenient way to play multiple amps though a single speaker cab
- several amp heads, 1 speaker cabinet
- allow one touch switching of both amp head AC power and speaker connection
- several or even 10s of seconds delay between switching is acceptable ie not for live in-play use
Why?
- don’t ever want to allow amp to power up without a speaker load, in particular accidentally
- access to the back of the amp heads is inconvenient after initial setup
- need to manually move cables is inconvenient and prone to error, potentially allowing a head to power up without load
How? (ideas)
- midi controlled multiple switch AC power switcher + midi controlled 1/4” TS speaker line relay switcher
- midi controller able to store command sequences for above activated by a single midi user input (button, switch)
- midi controller must allow sequencing a break-before-make sequence ie so that no two amps can ever be on simultaneously even for a fraction of a second (example switch sequence is: power all off, pause, switch speaker route, pause, power specific amp on)
Bonus!
- ability to deal with variety of amp head impedance loads by switching in an extra cabinet when appropriate; a completely independent 2nd set of speaker routes is likely sufficient ie speaker switcher above are two paths switched by a single (or equivalent to single) command
Any ideas? A single product incorporating above would be simplest, but I am not clear such a thing exists.
What?
- setup = a failsafe/foolproof and extremely convenient way to play multiple amps though a single speaker cab
- several amp heads, 1 speaker cabinet
- allow one touch switching of both amp head AC power and speaker connection
- several or even 10s of seconds delay between switching is acceptable ie not for live in-play use
Why?
- don’t ever want to allow amp to power up without a speaker load, in particular accidentally
- access to the back of the amp heads is inconvenient after initial setup
- need to manually move cables is inconvenient and prone to error, potentially allowing a head to power up without load
How? (ideas)
- midi controlled multiple switch AC power switcher + midi controlled 1/4” TS speaker line relay switcher
- midi controller able to store command sequences for above activated by a single midi user input (button, switch)
- midi controller must allow sequencing a break-before-make sequence ie so that no two amps can ever be on simultaneously even for a fraction of a second (example switch sequence is: power all off, pause, switch speaker route, pause, power specific amp on)
Bonus!
- ability to deal with variety of amp head impedance loads by switching in an extra cabinet when appropriate; a completely independent 2nd set of speaker routes is likely sufficient ie speaker switcher above are two paths switched by a single (or equivalent to single) command
Any ideas? A single product incorporating above would be simplest, but I am not clear such a thing exists.