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Originally Posted by markchatwin  Burkhard Lehle said you need a second device, such as his Sunday Driver, to correct the tonal change that his P-Split causes. |
"To correct" might be a misleading term here. He recommended to use the Sunday Driver to reduce the effects of the loads you put on the output of the P-Split.
If you use a passive splitter, it means that the electrical current generated by the (presumably also passive) guitar pickups has to drive two inputs instead of just one. Depending on what you connect to one output of the splitter, that could affect both outputs actually. The electrical current goes wherever it finds the least resistance. And this might also be non-linear with the frequency arrange.
If you help it with pumping more current through it (with a neutral current amplifier like the mentioned Sunday Driver), the effects should be far less.
I have made some tests with the P-Split, a Radial transformer and a cheap splitter box. For me result was: All of them have their effects on the sound. The cheap splitter was absolutely awful and not usable. The Radial and P-Split changed the sound subtly and which one to take is a matter of taste.
I used the recorded DI signal for reamping then and my conclusion was, that only 5mm of change in the position of the microphone has a much more dramatic influence on the guitar sound than whatever a high quality transfomer would do.
For me I decided to neglect what the splitter does if I decide to go the DI/reamp route.
And yes, you can of course buy just a good transfomer with the right specs from Jensen, Sowter, Lundahl, etc and have the same as what is sold in a shiny box as a "guitar splitter".
If you want the best possible guitar sound then dial in your amp to the sound you want, patch in a good quality cable and play and stay with that.