Question for all you guys re-amping..

[Kapo_Polenton]

I know a good re-amp box is essential ( I am going to be picking up a radial RMP reamp box) but what about the DI portion? I have seen a few threads where they mention that you can get away with using an OD before the converter/DAW to accomplish the same thing and add the sparkle you lose when you go direct into an interface. Is this true?

I tried it two ways so far. First was with an old Behringer GDI (sansamp rip off) between the amp and guitar. Signal flowed through to amp for the tracking while the DI gets sent from the behringer into my presonus firepod and the DAW. Sounds like it did the trick and the unit is designed in passive mode, as a DI box.

Second way was into a BOSS CH-1. As it is a stereo pedal, I just sent one side out to the amp, the other into the DAW. Sounded even better and had more sparkle on top.

Any advantage of having a stand alone passive or active DI? Will the quality be that much better? Is there more isolation of noise?

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

Don't tell me none of you guys reamp or direct record?? We all know that ain't true! Don't make me threaten to take my thread to TGP!

 

[Dingleberries]

Here's my solution:

 

[Dingleberries]

And the back:

 

[PatF]

Hey Kapo, I've been messing with this for a while. I have the RMP too. Someone posted a mod removing two extra resistors after the voltage divider. Helped a bunch. I changed out the pot to something I could put a knob on. Never tried an active reamp, but I have faith in the passives. The Cuniberti one is good too.

The overdrive pedal before the converters probably helps compress the signal a bit so the DI input doesn't clip. The DI inputs on most interfaces clip pretty easy. Spend time finding the level sweet spot between gain stages.

The Sansamp should work fine. The chorus pedal sounded good because of the buffer.

Another thing to try is not going through a monitor amp and play through the computer and adjust the reamp tone in real time. Most interfaces will still feel alright. A 10ms lag is like standing 10' from your cab.

 

[nwright]

Radial bought the rights to the cuniberti team design and now have it alongside the prormp and X amp.

Both the prormp and X amp have a known signal drop which Imo makes them practically unusable...I owned an X amp.

I ended getting a palmer dacappo which is a passive ramp box and is flat out the best reamp device I've used and it's only 125 bucks.

for di, I'd just go straight into the fire studio. The first 2 Xlr inputs should be instrument level di's. If you are also wanting a "through" to track through an amp as well, then a passive radial di is a good choice

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

Radial bought the rights to the cuniberti team design and now have it alongside the prormp and X amp.

Both the prormp and X amp have a known signal drop which Imo makes them practically unusable...I owned an X amp.

I ended getting a palmer dacappo which is a passive ramp box and is flat out the best reamp device I've used and it's only 125 bucks.

for di, I'd just go straight into the fire studio. The first 2 Xlr inputs should be instrument level di's. If you are also wanting a "through" to track through an amp as well, then a passive radial di is a good choice

Good to know this as well.. thanks fellas. I was wondering about the signal drop on the prormp but thought there was a signal level knob for this reason while reamping?

I also have the option to go straight into the presonus firepod (pre cursor to the firestudio i think) but I use the CH-1 to split the signal so I have a thru to the amp for tracking. I figured, why spend the $ on a DI just for the thru capability.

I'll check out the Palmer now as well. The redeye 3D looks good too but is a bit pricey.

 

[Anonymous]

i just use my boss LS2 line selector

set it on A+B.
A goes to amp/cab/microphone/interface/computer/track left
B/interface/computer/track right

gets me what i need for now. kinda what you did with the boss chorus.

 

[Anonymous]

I know a good re-amp box is essential ( I am going to be picking up a radial RMP reamp box) but what about the DI portion? I have seen a few threads where they mention that you can get away with using an OD before the converter/DAW to accomplish the same thing and add the sparkle you lose when you go direct into an interface. Is this true?

I tried it two ways so far. First was with an old Behringer GDI (sansamp rip off) between the amp and guitar. Signal flowed through to amp for the tracking while the DI gets sent from the behringer into my presonus firepod and the DAW. Sounds like it did the trick and the unit is designed in passive mode, as a DI box.

Second way was into a BOSS CH-1. As it is a stereo pedal, I just sent one side out to the amp, the other into the DAW. Sounded even better and had more sparkle on top.

Any advantage of having a stand alone passive or active DI? Will the quality be that much better? Is there more isolation of noise?

I use the Radial JDV MK3 active direct box to get my signal into my DAW and an old REAMP box to get it back out into my amp for reamping. The JDV MK3 gets a perfect signal into the DAW and when I adjust the REAMP trim properly, I can't tell the difference between a reamped track and one I recorded straight into the amp. The key is getting the signal out and into the amp so that the amp sounds exactly the same as when you play through it with the same guitar. That is what the trim allows you to do. Match the guitar into the amp with the reamped direct signal in terms of how the amp sounds/responds…

When recording, I have the output of the JDV MK3 going to my DAW direct to a track and then I just output that track to an AUX that has my Kemper hooked up to it. I set it to an amp that is similar to the one I'm gonna eventually reap to and play my piece in headphones listening to the Kemper. When I'm ready to reamp, I just output the direct track to the REAMP and mic it back onto a track through my mic pre and converters…

Steve
Steve