Hey, all. I was looking into picking up Radial's X-Amp for re-amping purposes and they seem to pair it up with their J48 active box. Can I get away with using my Radial ProDI passive? Thanks!
Regards,
Daniel
Regards,
Daniel
Can I get away with re-amping using Radial's ProDI passive?
- Thread starter Ice Man
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Wait what? I mentioned the difference in passive and active above. I was wondering if there was a pressing need to use an active box, or could I just use my passive DI.
Some people use a passive DI in reverse, but the consensus seems to be that better results can be achieved with a dedicated re-amp box. There's a slightly cheaper passive Radial re-amp box called the ProRMP which I have that works fine.
Nah, what I'm asking is much simpler than that. I plan on getting the X-amp re amp box, but I was just curious if the passive DI would track a clean signal well enough for the x-amp to boost, or should I just spring for an active DI? Probably a stupid question, but I'm just making sure.
ive done it is reverse with a passive...it works but you get some noise in the line doing it that way.
Dunno really... I just reamp by running the firepod headphone output through a boss EQ pedal and right into the guitar amp input. Works like a charm.
Nebulous
Daniel
I think Ice Man's question is still being misunderstood. He will buy the X-Amp for reamping, but Radial reccomend using thier active DI TOGETHER with the X-amp, and he wants to know if the results will be decent enough if he uses his own DI instead of the one they recommend ?
Correct! Thank you. Someone gets it. I'd totally give you a prize if I had prizes to give.
The DI I have is even a Radial box, I just didn't know if there was a major different between passive and active.
Thanks!
I see said the blind man!
Ok....the active vs passive DI argument has been around for a while. There's a thread on this over at gearslutz....here: http://www.gearslutz.com/board/showthread.php?t=89637
I use a Sansamp Bass Driver DI which is both active and passive. I use it passive-ly most of the time, into my Fireface and boost the signal with the mic pres in that. I use it for both guitar and bass tracks. I only use the active circuitry when re-amping bass tracks to use the dirty amp sim settings.
If your DI is a radial box and you have a decent pre to run it into to boost the signal, it'll be fine.
Ok....the active vs passive DI argument has been around for a while. There's a thread on this over at gearslutz....here: http://www.gearslutz.com/board/showthread.php?t=89637
I use a Sansamp Bass Driver DI which is both active and passive. I use it passive-ly most of the time, into my Fireface and boost the signal with the mic pres in that. I use it for both guitar and bass tracks. I only use the active circuitry when re-amping bass tracks to use the dirty amp sim settings.
If your DI is a radial box and you have a decent pre to run it into to boost the signal, it'll be fine.
joeymusicguy
Member
when all you people are setup to reamp, what are you monitoring the tone with during the session? especially for playback, not just during tracking
POD XT - when recording the DI track I run the parallel out from the DI box to my POD and record that to a separate track.
joeymusicguy
Member
Nebulous
Daniel
Kazrog
Kazrog, Inc.
I have the Radial J48 Active DI myself, because I was told by a Radial rep at NAMM that it's the better choice for active pickups like my EMGs. A lot of us here use actives, so I assume that is the better choice for us. I've been very happy with the J48, it beats any other DI I've tried.
