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Joined: December 2003 Posts: 420
Location: On the beach in Southwest Florida | Would you use both of these or is one enough? |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I'm not sure how well the Shark would work as a DI as I haven't tried them for that. Behringer makes an excellent DI. I have several. They are silent, have attenuaters, ground lifts, very full featured for the price. Paul might know if the pre-amp mode of the Shark would work as an effective DI, I only use them for emergencies to fix the otherwise unfixable. |
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Joined: December 2003 Posts: 420
Location: On the beach in Southwest Florida | Use whatever DI & have the Shark as a backup when feedback cannot be controlled any other way? So it makes sense to own both. |
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Joined: February 2002 Posts: 5750
Location: Scotland | The Shark will work perfectly as a DI box, as it has balanced & unbalanced inputs & outputs. In addition to the DI facilty you get a high pass filter with user-definable roll-off point, a compressor (not a great compressor, but it's OK) a noise gate & of course the 24-filter automatic Feedback destroyer. It also works as a mic-preamp & phantom power supply. The only disadvantages are that it has no EQ & it needs a wall-wart. Also YOU MUST READ THE MANUAL CAREFULLY as the correct input gain set-up is vital.
I use a Baggs Para Acoustic & a Boss AD5 with a Shark at the end of the chain, but as a one-box problem-solver for acoustic intruments the Shark is unbeatable for the money. |
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Joined: December 2003 Posts: 420
Location: On the beach in Southwest Florida | Thanks Paul, I believe you have given me the info I need to spend some money this weekend. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Thanks Paul,
I've only used the Shark on mic's and inline in LOUD stage situations. I wondered how the preamp was for use on a guitar or just basically as a DI. I figured it would, but didn't want to guess. |
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