Different Speakers and DI -> Different effect of tone control?

[lawry]

Wow. $300 for an active DI is pretty expensive considering they're all pretty much the same on the inside (despite the spin you may read). I'm actually with Bargie on this in that a Behringer DI is worth trying. I know quite a few bassists who use them and they work fine. If you want to make your own I can post a schematic of one I've built heaps of times (including selling 5 to a recording studio). However, by the time you've finished buying the bits you'll have spent about the same amount as the Behringer. And they have phantom power if required.

[ihasmario]

Alright thanks mates I'll give the behringer a try and post results when I get the chance to try it

[bargeloobs]

I'll admit right now I have zero experience with guitars with stereo outs and frankly can't see the point so I'll just bow right out of that conversation, but you mentioned you needed two DI's and I'm only guessing that you were using one for your gat and the other for your synth. What's stopping you going straight in to your pre amp with your synth, if it's digital it certainly shouldn't need a DI.
Then again you might have been talking about DIing your L/R gat channels in which case, as I mentioned I have no experience.
For the record those Behringer DI's are pretty much an industry standard.

Good luck man

[ihasmario]

/<\\/p>[/<\\/p>[/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/]<\\/p>/]<\\/p>/Quote from bargeloobs on June 30, 2014, 17:32
I'll admit right now I have zero experience with guitars with stereo outs and frankly can't see the point so I'll just bow right out of that conversation

It's just so I can record the neck and bridge pups at the same time into different tracks. I also find that these two tracks summed together isn't actually the same as the mono output - but I dunno why that is, as I haven't had the chance to investigate properly yet. I used an on/on/on to swap between L/R, Mono (L/L) and R/L, so it functions as a pickup selector in mono situations and a stereo split when I want to record both at the same time.

[bargeloobs]

Cool!

[ihasmario]

FYI the new DIs work as expected. I spoke to the person who designed my current DI again and they were able to bring up the old schematics. It was an impedance problem, causing my pickups to be loaded. It was a "vintage-style" (as much as I hate the term) boutique, which is why it wasn't treating the passive pups as nicely as more modern passives with higher input impedances.