On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 04:07:36PM -0400, Christian Delahousse wrote: > Another question about impedance and guitar sounds: I have a Tascam US 122 > interface with guitar (hi-z)/line(low-z) switchers on the inputs (2 ins with > preamps and 2 insert jacks) and a guitar tube amp with an effects loop > preamp out (Fender Hot Rod Deluxe). > > If I use my amp's preamp to colour my tone before going to the interface, > will the signal coming from the preamp out be high impedance or low > impedance (line). Should I plug the cable into the line level input, guitar > (hi-z) input or the insert jack (since it has already been preamplified). I would use the line in. I would only use the insert jack if I was actually using it as a loop, unless I knew it was OK to do otherwise. > Would all this be worth the trouble? Will using tube preamplification change > the attainable tones? It depends on if you like the tube pre better than a computer model of a pre-amp. I would imagine that the answer would be yes, you do want to use the pre-amp. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
