D-Lator Question

[lions den]

I have a D-Lator for my D-Style amp, but want to use effects in a wet/dry setup.

I know having the D-Lator hooked up to the effects loops with nothing plugged into the D-Lator send jack allows the use of the D-Lator by itself, that's all good.

now i just want to tap off of the send from the D-Lator to send to effects to be amplified through a different power amp.

Is there any harm in plugging a cable into the send of the D-Lator and also hard connecting the send/rtn jacks of the D-Lator? Or I could use a Y cable from the send jack, have one end go to the efx, and the other end of the y go back into the rtn jack of the D-Lator.

hoping for an easy fix without modding the D-Lator to be serial/parallel switchable.

thanks,
sean

[martin manning]

...now i just want to tap off of the send from the D-Lator to send to effects to be amplified through a different power amp.

Is there any harm in plugging a cable into the send of the D-Lator and also hard connecting the send/rtn jacks of the D-Lator? Or I could use a Y cable from the send jack, have one end go to the efx, and the other end of the y go back into the rtn jack of the D-Lator.

That should work, and depending upon how the jacks in the D'lator are wired (send jack not wired to break the internal send-return jumper) you may not need the Y-cable. You can find that out pretty quick by sticking a plug into the send jack with the in and out jacks connected to your amp. If you still have sound, you are good.

[lions den]

martin, thanks for the response, and yes the jacks on the Dlator are shorting jacks so when i plug into the send jack, sounds goes away. i was looking to add a quick jumper internally at the jacks to over-ride the non-shorting feature.

thanks,
sean

[martin manning]

All you need to do is move the jumper from the shorting terminal to the tip terminal on the send jack.

[lions den]

Yep, makes sense.
Thanks again.
Sean