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Re: not blowing things up, etc.

2003-11-29 by rreprobate

You can spend mad money on direct boxes once you catch the bug, but an 
inexpensive one that I have found to be quite useful is the Rolls Red Square. 
It has lots of gain, and can be used for balancing the MOTM's output -- or 
amplifying a signal going into the MOTM. It's not the cleanest amp I have ever 
heard. But it does also have this kind of funny exciter circuit that you can 
switch on as well, which is sometimes useful when injecting something into a 
VCF.

Little Labs makes some really nice DIs. Some of these are dual function "re-
amp" boxes as well, which can interface line level signals to guitar amplifiers.

Max


--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Adam Schabtach <adam@s...> wrote:
> 
> > Yes. While the signal levels out of each module may be adequete, not
> > every module likes to drive a wire clear across the room to a mixer. An
> > active DI helps buffer the output, and can balance a long cable run.
> 
> Exactly what I was thinking. Do you have any favorite units for this task?
> Someone recently recommended to me a Groove Tubes Ditto box for this
> application, but I haven't tried one yet.

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