Original Distortion Pedal Idea?

[ZombiCrow]

I'm a bass player, so this is all in the vein of bass, but it applies just as easily to guitar.

What are your thoughts on a pedal with seperate Overdrive and Fuzz controls?

Imagine a Bassdrive or similar pedal, complete with boost, but with controls for not only Volume, Tone, and Boost, but also two seperate controls for blending a fuzz signal with an overdrive signal? At their left-most positions they would ideally provide a completely clean signal, and at right-most provide the characteristics of overdrive and fuzz, respectively. Would these knobs perhaps need be the click-off sort, so they'd "click" into bypass in the left-most position? Also, how could this be done to avoid having to use a "Blend" control like so many bass-effects, and how do you sum the overdrive and fuzz effects equally at the output? Ideally the pedal would have two outputs, one for both overdrive/fuzz if plugged in alone, or for overdrive and fuzz seperately when run seperately.

I don't know a great deal about electronics, but the idea for this pedal interested me, so I thought I'd ask the more experienced people on this forum. Thanks!

[Yun]

Hmmmmm, i suppose this could help a bit, man:  http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/pdf/two_in_one_wiring.pdf

[ZombiCrow]

That is helpful, but not exactly what I meant... I'm thinking this is not two effects in one, but more like one effect with two different distortion circuits in parallel... Any other takers?

[petemoore]

  You might want to GEO over and check out the 'parallelizer'
  or ROG and see Splitter-Blend
  Splitter Blend works great, higher voltage operation ='d higher headroom for me,   
  Treadle makes a footpedal pan from one side to the other....just insert your favorite, or modded effects to the A and B channels.
  Could be all you need to split is a buffer...I forget where I saw this, haven't tried it, I believe it may be as simple as a buffer going to both effect inputs...