Helix wet cab(s) add-on to traditional tube amp/cab rigs for wet/dry/wet

[roscoe5]

I was looking at the Firehawk 1500 and my own tube amp/cab rig and was thinking it would be easy enough to add on a pair of small (6" coax?) speakers to handle the wet in a wet/dry/wet setup.  Our existing tube amps/cabs can handle the dry.  Helix could handle the routing.

 

While I think it's fairly easy for us to implement our own solutions, I went ahead and submitted an idea on Ideascale to basically pull the 2 x 6" coax speakers and stereo power amp from the Firehawk 1500 and put them in an add-on cab (preferably with L6 Link, but not necessary if we need to keep cost down).  This could be a single stereo cab, or a pair of small powered cabs, that could sit on top of our standard guitar rigs.

 

Wouldn't it be cool to toss a couple of these little guys on top of a DT25 or DT50 combo, all L6 linked together, instead of making people buy another expensive full guitar amp solution?

 

http://line6.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Helix-wet-add-on-cab/821255-23508?submitted=1

 

Open to ideas though from you guys for some add-on powered cabs for wet.

[tagwap]

You may want to check out the Laney IRT-X

[ricksteruk]

Interesting idea.  I had thought of buying a 2x12 cab at one point and installing a solid state power amp to use as a wet cab, but I never got round to it.

 

Also, yeah maybe 2 x 12s is a bit large.  2 x 6 inch or 8 speakers would probably do just fine.

 

I am pretty happy with the sound of my H&K combo - but stereo spread on stage is just fantastic.  Maybe I will buy a ground loop isolator box thingy and also connect up into the FX return of my Laney AOR combo for stereo pleasure.

[roscoe5]

You may want to check out the Laney IRT-X

 

That's pretty cool.  Maybe overkill and a little pricey.  I was thinking something maybe a little more simple, no more than $400 total for a single or pair of speakers.