[sdiy] re: guitar pedals in studio use..

[Larry Spence]

But watch out, there are some older or cheaper pedals (e.g. the old DOD
small-box phase shifters) that have unbuffered outputs with fairly high
impedances (e.g. 10K or more).  If you run the pedal output straight into a
1/4" line level input they don't sound right.  To get around this, I use a
Boss DI-1 direct box, which has a buffered unbalanced 1/4" output in
addition to the usual XLR out.  This is not the same as the "parallel
output" on most DIs, which is just a direct connection to the input, with no
buffering.

Larry

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
[mailto:owner-synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl]On Behalf Of Happy Harry
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 11:56 AM
To: deknow at deknow.com; synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] re: guitar pedals in studio use..


The pedal out is usually pretty low impedance. It will usually
be low enough to drive a low (or high) impedance input.

H^) harry


>From: deknow at deknow.com
>Reply-To: deknow at deknow.com
>To: synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
>Subject: [sdiy] re: guitar pedals in studio use..
>Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 11:29:56 -0400
>
>...what about the pedal output to the mixing board???  is the pedal out
>looking for a high impedance input???
>
>deknow