a stupid question about reamping

evangelista · 19th June 2006, 04:54 AM

Would this work for reamping:

turning a balanced +4 soundcard output way down and passing the signal backwards through a passive DI.

Anyone tried this?

Kiwiburger · 19th June 2006, 05:13 AM

Yes and no. Read the blurb at www.reamp.com to see what they say about this.

Basically, you need to achieve 3 things:

balanced to unbalanced
low z to high z
+4 line level down to instrument level - whatever that is, probably -20.

The reverse passive DI box achieves the first two, but you have an enormous amount of level that you need to disipate.

A reamp box is little more than a transformer DI box in reverse, with some resistors and a level pot for adjusting.

I've got away with using a passive guitar volume pedal, but it's not elegant.

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19th June 2006, 05:13 AM	#2
Kiwiburger Lives for gear Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,761	Yes and no. Read the blurb at www.reamp.com to see what they say about this. Basically, you need to achieve 3 things: balanced to unbalanced low z to high z +4 line level down to instrument level - whatever that is, probably -20. The reverse passive DI box achieves the first two, but you have an enormous amount of level that you need to disipate. A reamp box is little more than a transformer DI box in reverse, with some resistors and a level pot for adjusting. I've got away with using a passive guitar volume pedal, but it's not elegant.