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Darkglass parallel out tone suck

kringle77

kringle77

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Jul 30, 2004
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I used to own and really liked both the x7 and x ultra. At one point I tried using the x7 just for my DI sound and ran the parallel in effect output to my amp, a genzler magellan 800. The tone was noticeably different compared to plugging straight into the amp. Has anyone else noticed this? I just ordered another x ultra for di only situations and headphone practice and got thinking about how to get around this issue if I wanted to to parallel out to my amp sometimes.
 
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kringle77 said:
I used to own and really liked both the x7 and x ultra. At one point I tried using the x7 just for my DI sound and ran the parallel in effect output to my amp, a genzler magellan 800. The tone was noticeably different compared to plugging straight into the amp. Has anyone else noticed this? I just ordered another x ultra for di only situations and headphone practice and got thinking about how to get around this issue if I wanted to to parallel out to my amp sometimes.
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How many feet of cable total between the bass and the amp? If its more than about 18' you have your answer. Cable capacitance
 
#5
uhm, usually the 'parallel out' is pre-buffer.

i.e. if you're using a passive bass and don't have a buffer elsewhere, in this case bass' pickups are loaded by both a pedal and the amp, thus sounding differently compared to 'only the amp'.
 
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If it’s not buffered, let’s say both the pedal and a paralleled device are both 1meg ohm, in parallel you would now have a 500k ohm input impedance which would definitely sound different. The one on my sansamps are buffered, I believe.
 

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