yes. Thanks for the reply. Im a little confused on one issue. When a 1/4" kit is installed on these isnt the "powered" or "amplified" signal being passed through this output? I dont want to damage my other preamp by sending a powered signal to it. Any insight would be helpful. Thanks!</p>
Until you get it you won't know. Either the signal is being padded down by some resistor network, resulting in a line level, or close to line level signal...or there is a hot speaker output. Have you inquired if the amp is definitely included?
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Don't worry if it is at speaker level though. Most DIs have a speaker level -> line level pad on them. If you're recording it or sending it to a sound board, you should use a DI anyway. </p>
Also, I don't exactly recommend this, but I've run M3s directly into a board at speaker level (tapped right off the internal speaker) and it's been fine. And yes I know that's not good... </p>
I think the pads on 'most' active DI's are to enable the use of +4\-10 signals and high impedance low level (guitar) signals and not speaker levels which are considerably higher. A large power resister (at minimum) is required to make the conversion down to line level. There are commercial boxes available that will do this - a couple of models do both.
[quote user="KenB"]I think the pads on 'most' active DI's are to enable the use of +4\-10 signals and high impedance low level (guitar) signals and not speaker levels which are considerably higher. A large power resister (at minimum) is required to make the conversion down to line level. There are commercial boxes available that will do this - a couple of models do both.[/quote]</p>
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Actually you are right. A lot of them are just a -20dB pad or whatever. But I know the ProCo DB-1, which is quite popular, definitely has a switch to do speaker to line level.</p>
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