WesleyWard wrote
Re-amping could solve that though...
Pretty much, yeah - you still need to DI to get a good clean signal to the desk to reamp though.
Greg wrote
I forgot to mention that my Rickenbacker 620 has stereo capabilites and the tone and uses from using a different PICKUP for a different amp is quite a different thing. For one thing, you can have your bridge pickup always on an overdriven tone and your neck pickup on a pristine clean, reverby sound.
That's similar to what I do with my bass: neck pickup clean, fat and compressed; bridge pickup dynamic and overdriven a bit. Neck is always filling out the low end and the harder I play, the more bite from the bridge pup.
I'm also suspicious of splitter cables sucking tone. Would love to find a good quality stereo cable and then get a 1x stereo to 2x mono box made for splitting purposes.
A decent one won't, but a breakout box lets you rout two mono cables anywhere.