Equipment designed for Metal

[RKelly]

Yo,

So I've been working on some gear that I thought might be of interest to the Metal engineering community here and wanted to see if there's enough interest to warrant building more of them.

First off here:

Either a tube or solid state (or both depending on feedback) DI/Reamp/Splitter. This would be a one rack unit with a DI/Reamp input feeding a transformer isolated 4-way active splitter for signal processing. This one would run about $500 for a solid state version. If enough people (at least 12) are interested, the price would drop by about $60. A tube version would be a bit more (finishing up the schematics for this version).

Let me know what your thoughts are and if this is something of interest to anybody out there.

 

[Kazrog]

Hmm I am interested in just about any new gear but not entirely sure what you mean as far as the tube or solid state architecture. Are we talking about some kind of gain preamp stage? $500 is pretty steep for just another DI/Reamp type of unit, I guess I need to understand what makes this different from say, the Little Labs RedEye.

Thanks in any case!

 

[colonel kurtz]

i'm pretty sure i saw something similar to this advertised on gearslutz just last week...i don't remember the company who makes it, but it was being endorsed by michael wagner(or is it wagener?)...

OTOH, that unit was also almost $1000, so you've got 'em beat there

 

[RKelly]

The main difference from a Redeye is that instead of just having one output, you would have 4. More if there's a need for them.

It is a bit pricy, but most of that cost is due to using Jensen transformers, if it's cost prohibitive you could use different transformers and probably cut down on the cost quite a bit, though you might have a more colored sound (not necessarily a bad thing for metal either).

It's more similar to this than the Redeye http://www.radialeng.com/di-jd7.htm
which sells for about $900

Also, if there's any pieces of gear you've always thought would be nice to have or would come in handy that you haven't seen made let me know an we'll get something fixed up for you.

COMING SOON! CAPS MEAN SOMEONE IS YELLING!

API 312 clones as well as some transformer-less pres....