Quick DI shootout (jdi, great river, fireface)

[jauernis]

This is using a borrowed PRS guitar. Sloppy playing and didnt really watch the meters too much. Only 15 second clips zipped up file. I've been getting reviews that my DI's are a bit lifeless and I think I figured out what the issue was. (my chain was too long I had a compressor that I was bypassing that seemed to degrage the signal, so went straight from the great river to the fireface) So now I need help deciding which DI you guys would pick if you were reamping these tracks.


The DI's are:
One through great river
One through JDI through great river
One through Fireface (seems to be my favorite)



http://www.sendspace.com/file/ruwh85

Marcus I hope you can take a listen and let me know your thoughts when you read this. Thanks!!

 

[Metaltastic]

Hey man, I imported 'em in Reaper and ran 'em through Wagner and one of my impulses; I couldn't really tell much of a difference between 'em with that setup, though I think the differences will probably be greater once I get a chance to re-amp 'em through the ol' Dual Rec - I might not be able to do it tomorrow, but definitely Saturday! I should mention, though, that the lack of tuning made it...difficult to listen repeatedly

 

[jauernis]

Thanks Marcus! Yeah I know the tuning was shite...sorry.

Thanks for having a go with these files. Im hoping the quality is decent enough.

 

[Metaltastic]

Alright, gave 'em a quick re-amp through my Dual Rec - I gotta be honest, the playing was pretty inconsistent from take to take, so it's hard to judge whether the differences I hear are from the DI box or the performance, but I found the Fireface and GR to sound pretty indistinguishable, and the JDI to have more openness and clarity (especially on the open power chords). Here's the link!

 

[jauernis]

Awesome thanks Marcus! Can't wait for your shootout! I might get a red eye myself to do a shootout of the jdi and red eye...

Are you plugging the red eye straight into the mackie xlr to xlr?

 

[Metaltastic]

When I'm using it as a DI, you mean? Yeah, guitar --> Redeye --> Onyx, via XLR-XLR, and then when reamping, Mackie --> Redeye via TRS-XLR --> TS7 --> Amp

 

[jauernis]

Yeah sorry as a DI...thanks!

 

[Metaltastic]

HOLY CRAP - I just looked on the Radial website, and apparently the JDI has an input impedance of 10 kOhms, a far cry from the 1 MOhm which was touted as the "golden figure" in the preparing your tracks for reamping thread! However, it sounds pretty good to me!

 

[jauernis]

Well Red Eye is on her way! I'll do a comparison. I have my fireface pre's that I will plug into and one solid preamp in the great river. I'll try to compare both of those as well. I wish I could avoid the preamp and just go straight from the red eye into the trs input on the front of the fireface (not the hi-z).

 

[devouredremains]

Well Red Eye is on her way! I'll do a comparison. I have my fireface pre's that I will plug into and one solid preamp in the great river. I'll try to compare both of those as well. I wish I could avoid the preamp and just go straight from the red eye into the trs input on the front of the fireface (not the hi-z).

A passive reamp box should in theory work in reverse allowing you to go straight into a line in on your interface. It could be worth a shot if you really want to bypass the preamp.