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Broke Down and bought a DI

#141
Munjibunga said:
I doubt your last comment.
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I may not've worded everything just right there, but the point was (or was supposed to be anyway), take a great player playing through a behringer and a mediocre player playing through a bergantino, and the audience will gravitate towards the great players playing through the crap gear every time.

Of course, if the great player gets great gear also, it's even more better, but I've never seen or heard of a great player needing top gear to sound good.

PS. This is not an endorsement of crappy gear...especially B******er. Just saying, if you can't plug into whatever's around and sound good, you're not actually "good".
 
#142
will33 said:
But they sure as hell can tell the difference between a group of hobbyists playimg the cheapest stuff they can find that makes noise as compared to good musicians using good gear.
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I didn't always agree, but after hearing recordings of group A at church and group B using the same board but different gear (or in some cases the same as far as DI's and keys) there is a noticeable difference.
 
#143
will33 said:
I may not've worded everything just right there, but the point was (or was supposed to be anyway), take a great player playing through a behringer and a mediocre player playing through a bergantino, and the audience will gravitate towards the great players playing through the crap gear every time.

Of course, if the great player gets great gear also, it's even more better, but I've never seen or heard of a great player needing top gear to sound good.

PS. This is not an endorsement of crappy gear...especially B******er. Just saying, if you can't plug into whatever's around and sound good, you're not actually "good".
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With that I concur.
 
#146
Ok, I'll admit it. I love polka and what respectable polka band doesn't have an accordion. Klezmer bands fit right in there as well. The level of musicianship in these bands is awesome. Banjos are something else. After a few hours they can start to grate on anyones nerves.

Check out this new Electro-Harmonics C9 pedal, rumour has it that they are working on an accordion version.


 
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#148
Hey!

I've played in a polka band, both bass and trumpet. Yes, the musicianship was top level, and the gigs were just plain fun. Had to work my butt off to keep up. Playing a wedding with a good polka band in a beer hall chock full of Wisconsin farm girls is way more fun than anything else I've played.

The way I look at gear is it has to get out of my way. The stuff better be as reliable as a cast iron fry pan or I'm selling it fast. I get the thing that the player is king, but the gear has to be solid enough to let that happen. My definition of solid is reliable, no issues like hum or other impairments and loud enough to play the gig with volume to spare. That actually isn't so easy.
 
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#152
agedhorse said:
From a guy who has spent much of his professional life working in the pro audio field, and when not doing that, designing the gear itself, I think that often way too much time, effort and ego is placed on the gear rather than the solution.

Will that DI work? Absolutely. Will it it negatively alter the signal? Maybe a little. Will it matter? Probably less than the brand of TP in the bathroom at the venue.

Now the very earliest IMP DIs used a center tapped transformer with the CT connected to pin 1, which did cause problems when used with phantom power, but I recall this bring corrected maybe 25 years ago. Hardly worth holding a grudge over eh! Yes, there are better sounding DIs out there, but this will get the job fine in the world of combat audio at least.
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TRUTH! Nice to see some don get wrapped in ego
 
#153
howdoyoudo said:
I'm surprised at the cost of the Radial JDI. With a look inside, there is no way the components could cost up to 200 buck, could it? Still, I'll be getting one.
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Like any other company, they're in business to make money (profit). If you want the industry standard, you have to pay for it. I have two JDIs and two J48s. I don't think I paid more than $120 for any of them used.
 
#154
howdoyoudo said:
I'm surprised at the cost of the Radial JDI. With a look inside, there is no way the components could cost up to 200 buck, could it? Still, I'll be getting one.
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The single largest component cost in the JDI is the Jensen transformer in it (the 'J' in the JDI, although Radial has been using some other equivalent transformers periodically when Jensen can't supply enough). Those things run about $65-$80 depending on quantity - even at Radial's level I don't think they're discounted THAT much more. The case is also built like a tank, which can't be cheap.

The component costs DON'T add up to $200 - but they have to pay direct and indirect labor, overhead, taxes...oh, and I guess they needs SOME profit as well.

I've got a JDI, a J48, a few single and dual-channel ProDIs...and the other junk that I try to avoid using.

I like Radial. :)
 
#155
If I tried to put one together, I estimate the parts would be about $125-135. It would then take me about 40 hours labor to put it all together. So I would spend $200 to avoid that.
 
#156
You could cobble one together that would do the job for less but I don't think that you could come close to building one as nice as JDI's with the case, circuit board and components, and the Jensen transformer for $200. Sometimes it just doesn't make sense to build one. It really is priced well.
 

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