Hi Everyone,
I am a hobbyist who records guitar in my home studio. I have a Steinberg UR-22 interface with a Hi-Z input. If I want to record my guitar signal through my pedals, I currently plug the output from the pedal into the Hi-Z input of the interface, and then apply a cab sim in my DAW. Is there any benefit or advantage to using a DI box instead, plugging the pedal output into the DI box, and then the DI box into a line input of the UR-22? Would the signal be stronger, or otherwise sound different, through the DI box?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts and help.
DI Box for Recording Guitar?
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- KVRAF
- 6741 posts since 25 Mar, 2002 from sheffield, england
Probably won't make much difference.
If your guitar is plugged in directly without pedals, and has passive pickups and electronics, there might be a bigger difference. But you might be better off spending the money on pickups or pedals or something.
If your guitar is plugged in directly without pedals, and has passive pickups and electronics, there might be a bigger difference. But you might be better off spending the money on pickups or pedals or something.
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- Banned
- 5357 posts since 7 May, 2015
Yeah, it won't. Here are just some of the "experiments" I've done:
Radial. It's fine, and I think it does provide a better signal, but it's overkill.
That motu thing. Again, it was fine, but it went belly-up kinda quickly and it's more of a "feel" thing than anything else.
UAD solo 610. Nice tube saturation, but doesn't do anything dramatic. Though I wish I'd have kept it longer as they are worth double what I paid for mine
In the end, you'd be better off stashing cash for something like a babyface pro where it's a better interface latency wise (yes, it really is) and has as good a pre-amps as you can get.
Radial. It's fine, and I think it does provide a better signal, but it's overkill.
That motu thing. Again, it was fine, but it went belly-up kinda quickly and it's more of a "feel" thing than anything else.
UAD solo 610. Nice tube saturation, but doesn't do anything dramatic. Though I wish I'd have kept it longer as they are worth double what I paid for mine
In the end, you'd be better off stashing cash for something like a babyface pro where it's a better interface latency wise (yes, it really is) and has as good a pre-amps as you can get.
