Recently purchased a Countryman type 85 Dibox and I have my instruments with relatively clean strings, so I threw a quick riff in both of them. I don't wanna waste time right now so I did only record a quick shitty riff so keep in mind playing is different in both takes.
Bass is cheap LTD 50 (stock), Guitar is ESP SV Standard (EMG)
Here is a shootout, can you guess the correct answer ? 1 and 2 are either the bass 2626 or countryman DI, and the files 3 and 4 are the guitar in either 2626 or countryman. I tried to match the volume.
file 1
file 2
file 3
file 4
I don't wanna give the answers in X days so here they are, please don't tell the answer in the thread or it would kill the purpose of knowing if a good active DI is worth it or not for your ears when you have a similar interface. Here you go for the answers :
answers
And here are the non hidden files if you wanna keep that in your harddrive:
bass 2626
bass countryman
guitar 2626
guitar countryman
I'm trying to blindtest myself because I'm still in a possible psychological bias effect, but I think I hear clear improvement nonetheless but not where I would have thought it would be, because I know the recordings themselves. But I think I clearly hear the difference now. I had my WTF moment in the beginning when I didn't understand why the phantom power had no effect on the countryman, and that the only difference I could have is switching from PICKUP to SPEAKER (which lowers the volume cause of impedance mismatch) until I discovered it's shipped with an internal 9V battery already included which means it works regardless of the phantom power
Bass is cheap LTD 50 (stock), Guitar is ESP SV Standard (EMG)
Here is a shootout, can you guess the correct answer ? 1 and 2 are either the bass 2626 or countryman DI, and the files 3 and 4 are the guitar in either 2626 or countryman. I tried to match the volume.
file 1
file 2
file 3
file 4
I don't wanna give the answers in X days so here they are, please don't tell the answer in the thread or it would kill the purpose of knowing if a good active DI is worth it or not for your ears when you have a similar interface. Here you go for the answers :
answers
And here are the non hidden files if you wanna keep that in your harddrive:
bass 2626
bass countryman
guitar 2626
guitar countryman
I'm trying to blindtest myself because I'm still in a possible psychological bias effect, but I think I hear clear improvement nonetheless but not where I would have thought it would be, because I know the recordings themselves. But I think I clearly hear the difference now. I had my WTF moment in the beginning when I didn't understand why the phantom power had no effect on the countryman, and that the only difference I could have is switching from PICKUP to SPEAKER (which lowers the volume cause of impedance mismatch) until I discovered it's shipped with an internal 9V battery already included which means it works regardless of the phantom power
