Is Presonus TubePre worth keeping as a Direct Box

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I have a new DMP3 arriving this week at GC. I originally was going to return the TubePre for exchange. I recorded some Bass parts and I noticed that they sounded much better thru the TubePre over direct into my Firebox. In fact, I thought my old Mbox sounded better with bass than than the firebox. Should I keep it? Or would a $100 DI box better suite my needs. I understand the DMP3 may not be much better than the Firebox as a DI.
 
If it's working, why change? I've done direct comparisons bewtween the TubePRE and the Groove Tubes DITTO, and I felt the DITTO was better for bass. But it's also more expensive. Swapping out one $99 DI/preamp for another $99 DI/preamps is probably not going to be too much of an improvement, if at all.
 
I think that the TubePre sounds great for DI on a Bass, but it sounds really good if you use it for a front end some sort of amp modeler. I use it for a front end to my V-amp and that sounds incredible. I did some recording the other night with a moderately clean setting on the V-amp and cranked the drive on the TubePre. The distortion was thick, resonant, and had great tone. It also adds some nice tube style compression that keeps you from overloading the A/D inputs to the amp modeler.

-Jamie :)
 
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