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Amplify your Suitcase through your guitar amp

Started by Electroharmony, April 09, 2010, 09:41:09 PM

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Electroharmony

Some people may know about this, but for those who don't:

Say you would like to send your Rhodes Suitcase to your guitar amp, but would also like to cut the suitcase speakers out of the equation... here is a cheap easy way to do it, and have full control over your preamp.

Grab a two pack of 1/4" plugs from Radio Shack for $4.  Take a short piece of wire and connect the tip to sleeve.  The plugs I got have small screws for the connection, so no soldering is required.  Plug them into "Power amp input" on your suitcase.  This will quiet the beast.  Then you can use a guitar cord to run from "Pre-amp out" to our guitar amp.  

Even though it is in "mono" , if you adjust the vibrato intensity low you can get a nice tremolo vibe feeling.  And you can still use the volume and EQ.
Rhodes Suitcase 73 Flat-top
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Hohner Pianet N
Wurlitzer 145B
Wurlitzer 200A