[Ralf Mardorf] >On Sat, 20 May 2017 14:43:30 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote: >>This why I say, if you like the sound nothing else matters. > >Full ACK! Obviously, yes. >Usually all direct inputs, if made for guitar or not, don't provide the >full mids and bass provided by a guitar amp and guitar speaker. I'm not sure what "full mids" are supposed to be; in any case a passive guitar pickup connected to a low-Z input is a low-pass filter with reduced cutoff frequency and resonance. It loses treble and what I would call "bite" or "sheen" or "character" if I wore my audiophile hat today. Tim (Active DI user.) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user