DI Boxes?

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Last year I dug out my ocilloscope and tried to fix my Ampeg V-4 (it hasn't worked in at least 15 years). It took me the better part of an hour to figure out how to hook it up and what all the knobs and switches did. Once I got it to do something, I realised that I didn't remember how to read the stupid thing. The squiggly line was cool looking, but useless in my hands.

I sold the amp for parts.
 
Farview said:
Last year I dug out my ocilloscope and tried to fix my Ampeg V-4 (it hasn't worked in at least 15 years). It took me the better part of an hour to figure out how to hook it up and what all the knobs and switches did. Once I got it to do something, I realised that I didn't remember how to read the stupid thing. The squiggly line was cool looking, but useless in my hands.
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Yeah, but one just can't have a Jacob's ladder on one side of their mixing desk without having the scope on the other side; it just doesn't asthetically balance otherwise, ya know?

;) :D

G.
 
I was going to get rid of all that and just install Kiss-style flashpots. It's a much bigger statement, I think.
 
Farview said:
I was going to get rid of all that and just install Kiss-style flashpots. It's a much bigger statement, I think.
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Yeah, I was thinking that too, but I figure having my studio wind up looking like a Great White concert might be a bit too much of a statement.

I'm thinking maybe replacing the Jacob's ladder and the van de Graff generator with a couple of these floor-standing VU meters instead :p .

G.
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
Yeah, I was thinking that too, but I figure having my studio wind up looking like a Great White concert might be a bit too much of a statement.
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:/

Our lead singer died in that fire. I'm not offended, I'm just conveying how real it all is.

Slightly more on topic--For recording instruments DI, is taking a line out from an amp acceptable? I'm thinking about micing the amps, while taking a line from the amps to the mixer and from there into the Delta.
 
That is done with bass all the time. Direct distorted guitar sounds pretty bad, but you might like it buried behind the mic'd signal.
 
I've done it with guitar and bass before with mixed results. I just didn't know if it was a standard thing or not.

The guitars sounded a bit gritty and "clean". Bass seemed all right though the last time I tried that amp I was getting a ton of hiss from it.
 
I do it with bass every time. You always have to line up the DI and the mic'd signal so you don' get cancelation.
 
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