As I am is the foreseeable future actually going to have a guitar I can plug in I am looking at finding a reasonably linear guitar pre-amp.
Why? I hear you ask.
Well to preserve domestic bliss I figure I can thrash away with my chicken like scratching without offending the sensibilities of my good wife if I was to make use of the little mixer I have as a headphone amp.
Now while I will get some sound out by plugging directly into the desk, it is/will be on the edge of usefulness.
While the passive DI I have will clean up the sound, it will have a -3dB penalty (or thereabouts).
So is there a reasonably priced linear pre-amp in existence?
I know I could/should plump for an active DI however the little Behringer desk's phantom power is not the full 48v.