Axe Fx II dry recording feature...are the DI good enough?

[FrancescoFiligoi]

One of the best Axe Fx II's features that made me instantly sell my Ultra to buy this unit, is the dry recording/reamping feature.

Some of you who own this unit surely know what I'm talking about: basically it lets you record both the wet and dry signal on your DAW, being also a USB audio interface.

This feature works awesome within the Axe itself, since you can directly reamp the signal just using the USB cable, and it sends the recorded dry track into the Axe, which outputs your tweaked tone.
There's absolutely no difference in quality between the direct recording and the reamped one, since it stays within the digital domain. Also, the dry recording level is fixed which brings more stability.

But what about using the Axe Fx II's dry recordings to reamp them with real amps? Are the DIs good enough?

Here's a couple shitty riffs I've tracked with two different guitars, a Music Man JPXI 7 with BKP Aftermath, and a Blackmachine B7 with a BKP Cold Sweat. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5864881/Axe Fx II DIs.zip

Could you please check if they translate good enough on your system? The Aftermath has more output and the Cold Sweat sounds a bit weak, that's why the waveforms are so different (as I said, dry recording level is fixed on the Axe).

Direct recording with the Axe is so simple but I'm wondering if I should buy a dedicated DI box instead of using this feature, it depends on the DI quality.

Thanks in advance

 

[deLuther]

There is some strange form of strong peaks in riff1, like some kind of analog saturation/clipping, but levels of DIs with Cold Sweat are almost two times quieter, this is strange, because if it is preamp clipping, than there should be one level and Cold Sweat should not have such clipping because level is lower...

 

[FrancescoFiligoi]

There is some strange form of strong peaks in riff1, like some kind of analog saturation/clipping, but levels of DIs with Cold Sweat are almost two times quieter, this is strange, because if it is preamp clipping, than there should be one level and Cold Sweat should not have such clipping because level is lower...

Weird. Maybe it's justt my picking style, I tend to pick very sharp and "twangy"...

 

[FrancescoFiligoi]

can anyone else try these DIs? Thank you.