Ethan Posted July 25, 2010 Posted July 25, 2010 What are you gigging bassists out there using for a DI? I've used a Sansamp for a preamp/DI for years and am kind of tired of that sound (adds hiss, less mids). Any ideas? Rest of my rig is a Fender P Bass, Ampeg SVT3 Pro (provided it can be fixed), and an Ampeg ported 6x10.
DavidE Posted July 25, 2010 Posted July 25, 2010 What are you gigging bassists out there using for a DI? I've used a Sansamp for a preamp/DI for years and am kind of tired of that sound (adds hiss, less mids). Any ideas? Rest of my rig is a Fender P Bass, Ampeg SVT3 Pro (provided it can be fixed), and an Ampeg ported 6x10.I use the DI out on my Markbass head. My soundguy prefers the pre-eq feed which is probably good so I don't have to worry about FOH while tweaking so I can hear my bass on stage.
nervous Posted July 26, 2010 Posted July 26, 2010 I have used the Sansamp Bass Di for several years and it's been nothing but awesome. Quiet, clean, clear, versatile and rugged to boot. I run an Alesis Nano compressor in front of it as a limiter and through several different basses it's just performed flawlessly. Until I recently added the TC heads, which I use as a feed when I do use live amplification, it was all I ever needed. I don't think I would use anything else
Ethan Posted July 26, 2010 Author Posted July 26, 2010 Cool, thanks for the suggestions. I guess I'm wanting alternatives to the Sansamp. I run into soundguys a lot who don't want to use the DI on a head, which means they'll run your bass straight into a DI, then into your head, so the PA is just getting signal straight from your output jack! Maybe for dudes that use active basses that is ok but not me. I guess in a perfect world a soundguy would want to do that and would have an Avalon U5 or a Reddi on hand for it, but the sad fact is that they usually leave your tone to a DOD or whirlwind DI! Anyone tried an Aguilar Tonehammer???
Bass Guy Dave Posted July 26, 2010 Posted July 26, 2010 For the times that I didn't have access to my amps DI, I just opted to go with as much tone from the bass as possible. I liked the tone of the Basslines Active pickups, so I just used them direct for both live and recording and have been pretty pleased with the results. Don't know what's really new these days for bass DI. I kinda lost touch with that a while ago. The Sansamp stuff I remember, and the JDI radial box (I think was the name.) I'm sure there's lots of choices nowadays.good luck!
Jimbilly Posted July 26, 2010 Posted July 26, 2010 I had to quit using my Sansamp BDDI in one place because of noise/hiss, it would be fine most other places. The Radial DI boxes are very nice. My most recent favorite tone is a B15N preamp clone into a Radial DI to the board.
DavidE Posted July 26, 2010 Posted July 26, 2010 Take a look on www.talkbass.com for all kinds of bass info and advice. Tech21 has some new bass pedals in their amp simulator series bi use the Blonde with my guitar and it works great. They have a new Big one coming out soon that should be the ultimate for a bass d.I.
Stevieconlon Posted July 26, 2010 Posted July 26, 2010 I agree with Jimbilly regarding Radial DI boxes.They're all good and the one with the jensen t is very good
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