What DI level should I be shooting for for reamping?

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Title pretty much says it all. Just wondering what kind of levels I should be shooting for when my intention is to reamp the DI track into a guitar amp.
 
IMHO, there's not a lot of difference when looking for good levls whether coming in DI or not.

One main difference between the two can be that if you're coming in DI without any compression or limiting, your dynamics can be all over the place; a miked git amp tends to have some "natural compression" (for lack of a better term offhand) built into it, whereas a strainght DI is at the mercy of the the control of the performer and the natural output of the git. This can make straight DI w/o any in-line dynamics control a bit tougher when it comes to watching out for the peaks.

But as long as you keep the peaks tamed to come in under 0dBFS (I prefer leaving a good 2dB-3dB buffer at the top, myself), you should be OK.

IMHO, YMMV and all that.

G.
 
Thanks, Glen. I've been shooting at about -10. I'll bump it up a bit to about -5, though.

I don't want to do any compression since I'll be sending it out to an amp for reamping anyway.
 
Myriad_Rocker said:
Thanks, Glen. I've been shooting at about -10. I'll bump it up a bit to about -5, though.

I don't want to do any compression since I'll be sending it out to an amp for reamping anyway.
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Agreed on the compression.

If you're peaking around -10 to -5, you're probably doing just fine, I would think.

G.
 
So, when sending the signal back out the to amp, how can you monitor the signal level? IOW, I don't want the signal to be too low, or too high for the amp. Shouldn't it be exactly like a guitar plugged into it?
 
I've been wondering about this, too -- should the impedance be really high when going into the amp, like it would be coming from the guitar? I've seen "reamp" units retailing for well over $100 -- is one of these necessary?
 
antichef said:
I've been wondering about this, too -- should the impedance be really high when going into the amp, like it would be coming from the guitar? I've seen "reamp" units retailing for well over $100 -- is one of these necessary?
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It is if you're looking for that really high impedance. :D
 
TexRoadkill said:
It is if you're looking for that really high impedance. :D
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Indeed -- just seems like there'd be a cheaper way to pull that off -- no DIY soldering goodness?

edit - did a web search and found a few references to removed schematics (with 404s), and evasive references to protected intellectual property - this link is still good, though:

http://www.jensentransformers.com/as/as092.pdf

anyone tried this?
 
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