[sdiy] reamp?

[Happy Harry]

Most guitar pickups work best into a load impedance
of 500K ohms or greater.  Loading less than this can
cause a lot of frequency response degradation.

OTOH using a transformer to "step up" to line level
will be a problem as well, unless some active gain
is added.

While the "peak" of the guitar / bass is often as much as
a volt... steady state is probably more like 50mV...
much lower than typical line level.

H^) harry


>From: Grant Richter <grichter at asapnet.net>
>Reply-To: grichter at asapnet.net
>To: <owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>,   synth-diy 
><synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
>Subject: Re: [sdiy] reamp?
>Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:11:12 -0500
>
>I would also like to know what this does? And why use it at all since a
>potentiometer is all that is needed? I put my scope on an electric bass and
>guitar and show 1 volt peaks for a hard slap. Isn't that close to line 
>level
>anyway?
>
>I don't get it.
>
> >
> > anyone out there familiar with this device?  (if not, www.reamp.com)
> > takes a line level signal and converts it to a high impedence signal
> > that can be fed to guitar stomp boxes, amps, etc.  seems easy enough,
> > described by one reviewer as "just a simple box with a transformer and
> > potentiometer."  anyone have any hints where to start looking to do this
> > kind of thing?
> >
>
>


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