Ooo... that's one for further investigation.
"Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out."- Jaco Pastorius
Just under £500 here (about A$800). That's a lot for a DI box. And the Motown magic isn't in the box, it was in the players and producers.
Ooo... that's one for the lottery win...😁😁
"Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out."- Jaco Pastorius
I sound a bit like I'm knocking the box - I'm not. I'm sure it is a very well made and nice sounding bit of kit. But it is very expensive and you could get two very nice Rupert Neve DI boxes that also cope with guitar to power amp levels - and also present a much higher input impedance (over 2 MΩ) to correctly load passive guitar and bass pickups.
If you want a real vintage Bass DI sound, then the ACME will do that, though with only 60kΩ input impedance (a typical line level input impedance), you are going to lose a lot of top-end from the signal. Great for vintage muffled bass sounds, but not so good for bright slapping and popping techniques. It's certainly not an all-round DI box. Modern mic input gain controls let you control the input level at the preamp rather than needing to have it all done at the DI box.
There will obviously be sonic differences between that and a cheap $30 passive (transformer) DI box with a similar input impedance (plus -20dB and -40dB pads for higher signal levels), but maybe not as much as you'd think. And for a bit more money, the DI boxes made by ART have surprisingly well-performing transformers.
But that's what the Acme box gives you Simon that traditional what they call Motown sound. Listen to most of those old recordings not a lot of top end on those recordings at all. And a lot of that sound comes from the masters James Jameson's fingers. Is it over priced hell yeah. And the Rupert Neve is a totally different sound to the Acme anyway. Love the new Rupert Neve di box but again ok for pros but pretty highly priced.
Last edited by kimball492; 09-02-2017 at 04:40 PM.
Just that there are much cheaper ways to loose the top end!
Simon there's lots of ways of doing everything cheaper. It's just options. Ones mans meat is another mans gravy. Would I buy one Simon no but there's lots of people who will. Everyone has opinions we choose what suits us and our budgets.i use a Sansamp programmable Bass Di and love it as many people do. But other people hate them its options and choices.
There certainly are a lot of options out theer and it's good that we have them. But there's a big marketing emphasis on buying expensive kit to get someone's particular 'sound'. James Jamerson would sound just like James Jamerson playing a totally different bass and using a different DI box.
You do realise if I get new products or notifications Simon I share them. Even if I don't like something, someone will. But a little bit of positivity on any item that I post would be greatly appreciated as your coming over as a bit of a negative energy on pretty much everything I share . I do realise we can't like everything but I do try and help people and notify them of the availability that's currently being talked about.Much appreciated and thanks regards to England I'm from Cambridge originally.
Have a good day.
Kimball