DI box for reamping? Help

[Omnioneness]

Can i use my JDI Jensen Direct Box to reamp? The exact model is the
JDI JT-DBE Direct box. and if i can, is it: Put the Guitar into the "input", then the "Thru" to my Mesa, then the XLR "Balanced Output", to the Digi002?
And if thats right (or not), how do i reamp it back into the amp? Do i have to go from the Digi002 back into the DI box? Or can i just run from the head phone out, or some other output, directly into the guitar amp, then mic it up and record back in? OR.... do i just have to buy a "reamp" box? Thanks for the info, i've been trying to find specifics, but i cant find it exactly. Any and all tips/help is great.Thanks again.

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[BLUElightCory]

I would suggest using a re-amp box, which will ensure that your guitar amp sees correct levels and impedance.

Create a pre-fader send in Pro Tools, set it to unity gain (provided the DI track was recorded correctly), and send the signal to one of the analog line outs on your 002. Plug the line out into the reamp box and the reamp box into your amp. When you hit play, PT will send the DI track out to the amp, which should respond as if a guitar is plugged into it.

Hope this helps,
Cory

[Omnioneness]

Ok, so to record the DI track correctly, i can use the the DI box that i have now? Put the Guitar into the "input", then the "Thru" to my Mesa, then the XLR "Balanced Output", to the Digi002? Is that correctly or is there some other way? I dont need the reamp box to do the first DI take, just to reamp it right? thanks a ton

[allencollins]

the cheapest acceptable reamp/di solution I've found is the radial JDI. It is a di and reamp in one. Though it's not marketed that way it will work as both.

Though I 'm not a big fan of tranny's in the reamp chain, it's fucntional. Otherwise your looking at spending $300 on a di and a reamp like the x-amp.

passive transformerless di is what you want for a di. The reamp device can be the xamp, the 'reamp' or whatever. Little labs make a cool device. MW1 rock the best...........

[Mike Brown]

You can use any passive direct box as a reamp box with great results.

Just make sure you attenuate the signal going into the "output" of the DI box by roughly -30 dB.

Use your ears.

[mcphoto]

I followed Craig Anderton's re-amping advice and skipped buying any more gear for it.

Created a send in ProTools, assigned it to output three of my hardware, dropped the fader all the way down, plugged it into a Peavey Classic 30 with a vintage cab.

Brought the fader up slow until the amp seemed about the same level as an actual guitar. No undue noise, no smoking transformers. Worked just fine (with a 12' cable that is. Amp near my mixing desk, speaker isolated in a distant closet - kept the high-Z cable runs down).

I had recorded a Strat straight into ProTools and mixed a song using Line6 emulations. Bypassed the plugin so the untreated sound was going to the amp, mic'd it back in with an ADK A51, which is a warm & smooth mic.

Did the same for a second track, but... forgot to bypass the plugin. So the Marshall plexi emulation with chorus, delay and reverb went into the Peavey with the gain cranked for some grit and the spring reverb at about 70%.

I gotta say, it was one really crazy, hellacious metal kind of sound... but had a nice smoothness to the distortion, and the Peavey's preamp sort of crushed/compressed the effects from the Line6 plugin. Not what I needed for that song, but something I will definitely, definitely play with in the future... cool, heavy, mean, yet pretty and spacey at the same time. FUN!!!

[hakim]

Originally Posted by mcphoto

I followed Craig Anderton's re-amping advice and skipped buying any more gear for it.

Craig always has such good advice.