14 Nov
2003
14 Nov
'03
12:09 p.m.
Daniel James wrote:
A bass can be connected with mismatched impedances and still sound good
because the high freq loss due to mismatched impedances isn't clearly
distinguishable. The same is not true for a guitar since loss in high
frequencies is almost *always* very noticeable.
What I think is that James wants to connect his guitar and do live
processing with stompboxes2. Have you tried with jackrack, gAlan or
ecamegapedal? Just keep in mind that live processing isn't real time, it
can approach it but, depending your soundcard and setup, can be truly
disappointing.
Sorry. Guitar
is already line level.
Might there be a problem with input impedance though? A passive guitar
pickup isn't exactly the same kind of output as eg a CD player, is
it?
I'd been told that DI into my mixer was no good for bass guitar, so I
rigged up an amp, speaker and large diagphram condenser mic instead.
Result - exactly the same sound, only more noise.
Then I figured out it was my playing that made the bass sound so
lame...
Cheers
Daniel