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Originally Posted by aclarson  The Radial boxes do work backwards for reamping because they're passive, but it's less than ideal because the DIs are made to go from guitar level down to mic level, so when you feed it back out at line level, it's 1000x more powerful. |
All Radial boxes aren't passive. For example the JDI is passive and the j48 is active.... So if you do buy a Radial DI box, with the intent to use it as an DI box AND a re-amp box, make sure you pick up a JDI or a PRO DI passive DI, and NOT a j48 or a Pro DI active DI.... If you end up with an active box, it won't work backwards.
aclarson is right about the levels though..... If you use the JDI backwards your level may be very hot..... If you check out the actual "re-amp boxes" that radial offers, they have a "level control" built into the output of the box, so you can adjust the level going to your guitar amp..... this way you can be sure that your guitar amp isn't seeing levels that are too hot for it..... a JDI or any other passive DI boxes that were ment to be used as DI boxes only, will not have this.
So if you DO use the JDI or any other passive radial DI box backwards as a re-amp box, make sure you have some sort of level control set up. For example send the signal out a bus and use the bus fader to bring the signal down in level before it leaves pro-tools and hits the DI box.
Also if you aren't using an actual re-amp box, you may experience grounding issues, which will give your guitar signal a wicked buzz. These results may very depending on which kind of passive DI box you use.
I should add that you can get a radial pro DI for 99$ new.... and a Pro re-amp for $99 new. Save up another $40 and you can just get both and not worry about any of this.