On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:37:43PM +0100, Simon Williams wrote: > Actually, what instruments actually need DIing? Acoustic guitars fine. With acoustic guitars it depends on the type of pickup. A piezo- electric one (very high Z, normally directly connected to a guitar amp) needs a DI-box. If it is actually a miniature electret mic with it's own battery/preamp unit maybe the preamp output can go directly to a mic input. Depends on the wiring. Be careful with phantom power in that case - it could destroy the preamp if that is not designed for it. Professional sound engineers will use a DI-box for everything that doesn't have a balanced XLR out. Even for high-level synth outputs etc. which in theory could go directly to a line input. > What about electric guitars and bass guitars? You need a DI-box for these. Ciao, -- FA Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica Parma, Italia Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
