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Amp or Sansamp?? Need advice!

#23
Elmo Oxygen said:
The last time I was in the studio, we used a pre/DI pedal (like the sansamp) using the balanced/effected line as well as the parallel out, they also used 3 mics on my cabinet (including a Yamaha Sub-kick mic) this way they had multiple sources to mix together.
I also record frequently in a home-studio, where I don't even bring an amp, just straight in to one channel.
The results are both good. You can really get away with either, all the technology available today makes it fairly easy to make the track sound good as long as you send a clear signal.
I'd say get the Sansamp because you'll probably integrate it into your board and use it a lot more than just this once. (IMO)
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Last time I recorded I did something like this too. Sansamp RBI Effected out to the board, uneffected out to an Ampeg SVT-DI, into the board, then blend to taste.

I don't know if the BDDI has an uneffected (dry) signal out, but if it does you could easily run the Sansamp into the board, then the uneffected signal into the Marshall amp and mic a cab. Best of both worlds!
 
#28
Elmo Oxygen said:
I'd say get the Sansamp because you'll probably integrate it into your board and use it a lot more than just this once. (IMO)
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Everyone should have a BDDI for it excellent utilitarian / backup features. And at the very least it sounds good. Just got done with a live multitracking event and came out of the effected direct o/p of the BDDI to the recorder and am just smoked on how good it sounds.
 
#32
I just got doing a demo in the studio this past weekend. I used my BDDI and also miked the amp.

The miking of the cab gave much more of the bite and grind of my SVT3 and the BDDI filled out more of the tonal bottem end that I was missing a bit in the cab miking.

To help understand this better for 3 songs I recorded with both and on the last song I had my cab muted and just ran on the BDDI. On playback, I was missing the cut that my amp was giving me previous in the mix.

Ideally I would say get both. But if your in love with the Marshall sound then get it because nothing is going to duplicate it exactly right.
 
#36
just got an RPM preamp today, and IMO, it sounds good, but it doesn't do the distortion thing well at all. the drive control is okay for adding a little grit, but IMO, doesn't really sound like useable distortion to me. it just sounds synthetic and fuzzy in the background, but i don't use the drive control for that. i use it to just set the input volume, rather than to use it as an 'overdrive'.

that said, my PSA-1's yield almost any type of distortion and tone that you can imagine.
 
#37
johnk_10 said:
just got an RPM preamp today, and IMO, it sounds good, but it doesn't do the distortion thing well at all. the drive control is okay for adding a little grit, but IMO, doesn't really sound like useable distortion to me. it just sounds synthetic and fuzzy in the background, but i don't use the drive control for that. i use it to just set the input volume, rather than to use it as an 'overdrive'.

that said, my PSA-1's yield almost any type of distortion and tone that you can imagine.
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wow I checked that thing out, it looks like exactly what I need
...but it's 650$ !!! I guess I could save up if it's really worth it...
 
#40
ok last question then;
I just read about the Sansamp GT2 which seems to have the kinda distortion I need, but it 's for guitar more than bass (I think). Is it still worth the try?
OR: My rick is stereo, so I could buy 1 BassDI and 1 Gt2 and plug each pickup in one of those 2...and getting both these sansamps will still cost less than the amp. Is that a decent idea?
 

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