I run house sound at a venue. We'll occasionally get a player with a non-magnetic passive pickup, and it sounds fine directly into the house amp, but when it passes through a house DI the feed to both the amp and the DI's XLR output is either thin or low-level or both. The DI's are passive, either a Radial or a Whirlwind, and work fine on literally everything else. The pickups always seem to be "I don't know the name, my bass tech put it in and he charged me a lot." I end up using a combo of a mic on the amp and a mic on the bass. Which is fine when the player stays put, but players with pickups tend to feel like they shouldn't have to. And with rockabilly players, not staying put is part of the deal.
Any idea what's going on here? Thanks in advance.
Any idea what's going on here? Thanks in advance.
