22 Oct
2007
22 Oct
'07
10:18 a.m.
On Sunday 21 October 2007 21:03:42 Leslie P. Polzer wrote:
I use a homebrew fuzzbox to adapt instrument levels to line levels. I can set
it clean with a lot of gain, and get fairly good quality from it. Of course,
giving it *lots* of gain and going all crunchy and distorted tends to work
well for me too...
Gordon
Don't do
that. You want a box with an instrument input and a line
output. I second Dave's suggestion for an M-Audio AudioBuddy. I have
one and it works great (I've seen them as low as $60US). It's a
small, cheap, two-channel mic-pre with instrument (a.k.a. DI) inputs
and line outputs (balanced, which should still work fine with the SB).
Many single-channel mic pres also have instrument/DI inputs, like
those ART tube units (as low as $30US).
A regular DI with output a low impedance mic level signal, which would
still not give you the output signal you want.
I bought a distortion pedal -- hope it'll do the job.