Radial Shotgun 4-channel Amp Driver Reviews

It does its job, and does it very well. Radial engineering is top notch.

With this pedal I am able to compare up to four amps at once and also hear which amps are lacking certain frequencies. Running amps together that are voiced different gives a huge tone.

I use this to send my dry signal to a modeler, a Marshall combo, a victory head and a instrument preamp for tracking dry to the daw. They are all getting clean and perfect signals thanks to this box! Love it! Would be nice if it came with a PSU like my switchbone. But it just takes a 9vDC neg tip which is kinda the standard for pedals so it was easy enough to track down another PSU for this. The location of the dc power input jack is not ideal for me but I made it work. I WISH, that it had the buffer adjustment like the switchbone aby/c box for when I use active pickups since they are their own buffer. I also wish it had the drag control. I have come to like that feature on the JX.2 switchbone, but this does 4 mono outs or two stereo and I love it. I mounted it on the underside of my desk. Works great!

The service and shipping were fast and accurate as always.
Using multiple amps is not a new concept, but I wanted more options and flexibility than I could get with an aby switch. So my quest for a switcher began.
The voodoo product was perfect but discontinued so I looked at the Radial shotgun for 800. A bit more than I wanted to spend.
I bought a really quality, built for the road 6 amp switcher from Kendricks amps. Very happy but its really not intended for on the fly switching.
Then Sweetwater sent me notice of the radial shotgun... I jumped on it because:
The price was absolutely irresistible
It is buffered
It has ground switching/lift
And 2 instrument inputs.
With 1 guitar connected all 4 amps are supplied by that input. When the 2nd guitar is connected the shotgun automatically goes to stereo with amp 1&2 from input 1 and amp 3&4 from input 2.
Perfect for 6L6 on one input and EL 83 on the other. Or all together. Or any combination
Lots of tone options there.
I normally play my strat or semi hollow through the "American" 6L6 side. Amp 1 using 6L6 into a cab of 12in eminence red white blue. Amp 2 using 6L6 into a cab of 10in eminence cannibis rex. Or play my Tele or Ric through the "British" EL 83 side.Amp 3 using EL 83 into cab with 12in eminence legend gb128 and amp 4 into amp using EL 83 into a cab of 10 in eminence ramrod.
Or any guitar in any combination.
Like I say: lots of tone options.
You must try multiple amps. Killer.
The Radial Shotgun is perfect for this, well made, and noiseless. I recommend it highly.

I'm using the Shotgun to send my acoustic guitar signal direct to a mixer, and also to three separate effects (delay, resonant reverb, low octave doubler) which also go to separate channels on the mixer. The reason is, I don't want the resonant reverb affecting the repeats of the delay, and I don't want delay or reverb on the bass doubler. Further, I can control the relative levels of dry sound and each effect easier with the faders than with the "mix" knobs on each pedal, and I can pan each signal differently to make a more spacious mix. When these effects are in a chain, things get mushy fast. By having each effect on its own signal path, the sound is much cleaner, and the level of dry signal is much easier to control. The Radial Shotgun is quiet and effective. I have not needed the phase or ground lift features on each channel as I'm not double amping, but they are there if needed.

quiet. Let's me run a wet dry wet setup, my daw and has ground lift and isolated buffered outs.

I love this thing.

I started buying amplifiers to run in stereo and got a little caught up in having 5 amps that I wanted to run in stereo. If you haven't run in stereo, you are missing the real fun with sound. But I needed to isolate the signals from each other and somewhere down the road, purchase a stereo pedal or two for the real effect to take hold. This pedal lets you run two inputs L/R and splits the output separately so two amps are left and two amps are right. Haven't gotten there yet, but this has all the stuff to make it happen. I was a little surprised at how small it was when I took it out of the box, so that is great for pedal board real estate. If you need this functionality, this is a product to seriously consider.

This is great for taking your guitar or even a vocal mic and sending it through 3-4 signal paths of effects. I have the Voco Loco preamp which is great for vocals w/ my favorite guitar pedals... the shotgun is different but just as effective in its own way. Like said above "whisper quiet" and the perfect "1 take 4 guitar tracks/vocal tracks" home studio blast. I"m sure it does the 2-4 amp stuff perfectly too.I"ve been using preamps and going direct, but can"t wait to get this in a big studio with Marshall stacks and fender/Vox tube amps and see what happens. 5 stars like all the radial engineering stuff I have. Some gear you get and it feels flimsy and light and not too rock solid. RADIAL engineering pedals/preamps/amp drivers you get it out of the box and feel the weight you say man this thing is built to last. SOLID!

"But, honey, this one is different! It's not for me! It's for them! [gestures toward rig] They need it!" First, a shout out to Joe Secu for always getting my order to me as soon as possible. I bought the Shotgun to run multiple stereo effects pedals into two amps in stereo, plus a line to a vocal processor from which I do not want any guitar signal. The amps are often in separate outlets, and this beauty cleans up any unwanted noise. It also corrects out-of-polarity in the signals coming from the amps. I hesitated to give this a five because I don't profess to know enough about the technology in and around this pedal to give a truly educated assessment. But based on my user experience from out-of-the-box to now, it is a seamless, dependable, and intuitive tool that has taken a huge, unwanted variable out of the equation.

P.S. I am a technical writer in my day job, and I will not be applying for work at Radial. Their team makes the most straightforward, intuitive, and comprehensive user guide's I have seen. I couldn't contribute a thing.

This device works great with multiple amps set up no loss of tone all ground loop problems gone run in mono or stereo it"s a must have

I run a fairly extensive pedalboard that runs boosters/compressors/fuzz mono into stereo tremolo, delay and reverb pedals. This is all kept hooked up on a pedaltrain board with high end cable cut to length then through a Jamman Delay. I have run two amps for years and finally sought a solution for the noise and phase issues of using two tube amps. Currently the right side is a VOX AC10 w/Greenback and the left is a FENDER Excelsior with an Eminence 15. Not terribly loud but with all of the time, effort and money spent putting this together the noise generated by the amplifiers put the raspberries to what should have been a great sound.
Radial's Shotgun was the answer to running stereo outputs into something that will allow ground lifting and phase reversal to knock out that obnoxious amp noise. It was a revelation to hear, nothing. Bonus points for an extra pair of outputs that can be run to a board for reinforcement or recording. This is an excellent choice to silence a noisy rig running in stereo and WORTH EVERY PENNY spent. I would buy it again if I had to, but it's unlikely as it's built like a tank. First Radial pedal I've used but their's was the solution to a vexing problem I've had for years.

I use this in the studio, and I own several. Simple to operate, rich feature set, transformer-isolated signal paths for whisper quiet sound. They're the best tool I've found for distributing instrument signal to several destinations at once. Stellar, high-quality product.

I've got 4 amps that I tend to switch between from day to day and when I read about the Radial Shotgun, I saw my chance to get rid of a few ABY switches. With the Radial, I just plug my guitar into my pedal chain and have the end of the chain go into the Shotgun. The Shotgun then feeds into each of the 4 amps and all I have to do is turn on the amp(s) I want to use. No more having to set ABY switches or remember where those switches last pointed. I tend to use one amp at a time, so I really didn't need to worry about the ground lift or phasing of multiple amps. But if you want to go stereo or multi, you can set the ground lift & phase of amps 2, 3, & 4 relative to "amp 1". The shotgun is transparent, tone-wise, and did not introduce any noise into the signal path that I can detect. This device does exactly what I wanted it to do, and does it very well.

Does exactly what it's supposed to. I've had it a few years and one of the outputs just stopped working. I had an unused outlet so it isn't a problem but that's why its 4 stars for review.

If you are looking for a way to introduce LOTS of options into your signal path without degrading your sound, look no further. This thing is exactly that, and as a bonus, the GND/LIFT toggles occasionally eliminate noise in your chain.

My only feedback or knock on it is this: somehow this thing is nearly impossible to place on a pedal board. It's hard to explain until you have on in hand, but you will probably rotate this box like a rubik's cube trying to have it make sense on your board without some type of really awkward cable run. The best option I have come up with is to have it affixed vertically to the front or the right side of the board itself, allowing the outputs to face the ceiling, and then come off of those with 90-degree plugs. It's a quirky thing, and a minor annoyance, but it is worth mentioning.