![]() ![]() When i finally got around to getting a reamp and a pair of d.i.s, and put those either side of the pedal and used the mic ins on the desk to bring the gain back up to line level, the results were far superior.The Radial Engineering Reamp Station combines two studio essentials in one complete package: an active direct box for capturing pristine recordings of any instrument, and the JCR high-performance Reamper to feed your tracks to guitar pedals and amplifiers for re-recording, to take your mixes to another level. (even in reverse!) do quite different jobs.įor years i used the passive attenuator method to send line signals out of the desk and into guitar pedals, then i used the line ins on the desk and the gain to bring them back up to line level. If you think about it logically, a reamp and a d.i. the level, type and impedance of the signal are all changed. there are various reasons why you might want to do this (you want the colour of the preamp, you need more gain, you want to send it over a long cable etc.) gain often doesn't change with a d.i., but the type and impedance of the signal do.Ī reamp takes a balanced line level signal and converts it to an unbalanced instrument level signal, (for running daw outs through guitar pedals and amps, for micing up stuff etc.) a reamp will also usually drop the gain. takes an unbalanced instrument or low level line signal (such as the output of a guitar pickup or keyboard), and converts it to a balanced signal suitable for plugging into a mic pre amp. you really just need to think about what each type of box does:Ī d.i. in reverse as a reamp, and i have heard of people doing this successfully. Some people do like to try using a passive d.i. yeah and you also get a ground lift on most reamps too. I don't know what that equals in dBV, but it is hotter than line level. Typically 10v swing in total, from -5v to +5 AC. "Modular level" is even hotter than "Line level". ![]() It's a lot 'hotter' than instrument level, and typically gear needs to be powered in order to support it. "Line level" is +4dBV, what you get out of preamps, into and out of recording consoles, many bits of powered audio gear like rackmount FX processors, etc. A very weak signal, available from unpowered/passive devices like the magnetic pickups in guitars. "Instrument level" is -10dBV, what you get from a guitar, passive bass, into/outof guitar pedals, into guitar amplifiers, etc. It also works nicely to drop modular signals (since they are so hot) down to guitar-level signals so you can use a guitar or bass amp to amplify your modular. Or in other words, record your guitar direct and dry, then after recording you can experiment with sending that recording through different amps, or pedals - reamp goes in between the computer's outs and the amp or pedal's inputs.ĭoesn't have to be guitar though - it'll work with any source material coming out of a line-level recording/playback device (or signal generator/processor). That's exactly what it's for - you want to take an already-recorded signal out of a recording machine (computer in this case) and drop it down to instrument level so you can use your pedals on it - this is what the reamp is designed to do. ![]()
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