DI and Re-Amp box, which ones?

[GrantMcFarland]

okay so heres the deal, I know this company makes good stuff. Theres a $100 and $200 one for each. My buddy carson has the more expensive ones, and I know they work great. I'm wondering about the difference in quality. Because I don't wanna go halfway and end up spending money on the better one then.

DI's

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ProDI/ - $99
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/JDI - $199 < the one carson has

Re-Amp Boxes

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ProRMP - $99
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/XAmp/ - $199 < the one carson has

Input please?

 

[Metaltastic]

For reamp boxes...

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/equipment/448081-best-reamp-di-unit.html

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/equipment/448999-firestudio-project-reamping-you-advice.html

For DI boxes:

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/production-tips/290714-preparing-your-tracks-reamping-guide.html

Read and learn

 

[GrantMcFarland]

sweet! Looks like the redeye is the way to go...especially seeing as i already have a firestudio.

 

[Metaltastic]

Yeah, mine has been fantastic! Just be sure to open it up and disengage the pad button deep inside (teehee) the unit the SECOND it arrives!

 

[GrantMcFarland]

oh, why does it have a pad button that is not easily reachable? that seems odd...and that it is always on.

Also, a little confused with some of the posts - with the firestudio and the redeye can I monitor my input with my podx3?

 

[MetalJonesy]

as far as reamp units i love the Reamp V2

and as for di, i use a samson s direct, great value!!

 

[Metaltastic]

Yeah, the Redeye is like any other DI box in that you'd plug your guitar into it and it has both an XLR output that would go directly into a preamp on your FS and also a 1/4" unbalanced "thru" output that you'd send to your amp/Pod/whatever. And don't ask me what the logic behind the pad is, it's really quite dumb, and although there is a hole to access the button, you would need like a 4" long toothpick to get at it But at least once you've disengaged it, there's never a reason to put it back on! (if you EVER wanted to lower the volume of the signal you were re-amping, and I don't know why anyone would cuz it's a passive box, that's why there's the knob on the front!)

 

[GrantMcFarland]

Awesome! Thank you so much for your help dude. I can't wait to mess around with impulses..i feel a little restricted with my pod.

 

[Metaltastic]

No problem man! Yeah, the pod is cool cuz it's a self-contained preamp with its own processing, but sounds very dated IMO

 

[006]

How many times is this going to be covered?

Jesus fucking christ...

~006

 

[Metaltastic]

 

[Ermz]

Yeah, mine has been fantastic! Just be sure to open it up and disengage the pad button deep inside (teehee) the unit the SECOND it arrives!

Hey Marcus. I just disengaged it with the blunt end of a toothpick. It can be done, you just have to keep the pick straight otherwise you miss the button.

I can't believe it came with the pad in as default. That's really strange. Does the pad seriously affect the level coming out of the re-amp out?

 

[Metaltastic]

Well I did some successful reampage with it in, but in my research I read tons of complaints about the level (turned out they all hadn't disengaged the pad) - I'm not sure how much it attenuates, but from the LL website:

Pad is an internal push switch reachable by a thin screwdriver to select the reamp in pad for +4dB (pad in). Pad in is used when the redeye is used as an extra output for the PCP, or with any +4dB line level inputs. Pad out is for use with low level devices such as an active DI without gain.

I guess that makes sense since a line level output is at +4 (adding gain to the chain), but I'd rather start higher and just use the re-amp level knob to attenuate the signal (since that's all it can do) if I ever needed to (and I never have). I guess the +4 is offset by how dynamic a guitar DI signal is; the pad would probably be more useful for re-amping something with less dynamics (for the funky effect of running, I dunno, drums through an amp or something ridiculous like that )

 

[Ermz]

Hmm, very interesting. I'll give it a spin with the pad disengaged and see how it goes. A lot of it really depends on how hot the DI guitars are tracked. With your EMG comparison I had to crank my TS and amp gain a bit, but with some others (oddly enough, ones that usually sound worse in the end) I found it had plenty of gain.

I'm not quite sure, but I think my Multiface is a +4dBu device, so I can probably get away with the pad in, provided the DIs are tracked at a reasonable level.

 

[Metaltastic]

Well I'm pretty much certain that any balanced output is +4, and I don't really see a need to have the pad in when the knob is right there! And since the Reamp doesn't have a pad, I think it's probably just a case of Jonathan Little wanting to cover ALL the bases (he seems like that kind of a guy, when I met him at NAMM he reminded me of Brent Spiner's character in "Independence Day" )