REDDI Tube DI Mega-thread-III

[JimmyM]

You will love it, bro! Hope you have fun with it...

 

[Peter Montessi]

Hi Guys,

Sorry for being away so long, it's been a tad nuts here.

Thanks for keeping this thread alive.

And thanks for all the kind words. Hope you're not in this HEAT WAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[beans-on-toast]

A REDDI is hot, like a HEAT WAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!.

 

[overbybr]

I just (finally) bought a REDDI! I am so stoked, can't wait for it to get here! I'll need a number and all that, but of course, I'll wait until pictures are posted.

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f15/reddi-owners-club-934307/

 

[f.c.geil]

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f15/reddi-owners-club-934307/

Ah, thanks! Sub'd, number requested, and all that.

 

[Peter Montessi]

Happy 4th everyone.

Lets come back with 4 fingers and a thumb please!!!!

Be careful,

 

[JimmyM]

Same to you, Peter! And everyone!

 

[svtb15]

Stereo REDDIs

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[RocketMusic]

Man, I bet that sounds good, Kirk!!

I "fake" that when I record by cloning the bass track and dirtying it up in the DAW. I'd rather do this though, real dirt instead of fake dirt...

 

[svtb15]

I have Amplitube and the ampeg plugins.. Really cool But SOOO many opinions that i have a hard time deciding... .hahah

 

[beans-on-toast]

Stereo REDDIs

That would sound cool. The one on the bottom for a neck pickup and the one on the top for a bridge pickup. Or in the case of a Precision, the bass and treble pickups.

 

[stingray56funk]

Added a little something manly to my REDDI. Sounds better, IMO.

 

[f.c.geil]

I hope I won't be excessively castigated, but I got my REDDI today, and it's going back. Horrendous sound, nothing like what I've been hearing from clips here and elsewhere. Nothing but fuzzy distortion, like a heavily overdriven guitar.

 

[N. Kentucky Bass]

I hope I won't be excessively castigated, but I got my REDDI today, and it's going back. Horrendous sound, nothing like what I've been hearing from clips here and elsewhere. Nothing but fuzzy distortion, like a heavily overdriven guitar.

You're probably overdriving your recording input. Turn down the level on the REDDI. I just recorded some clips with a passive P bass and had the REDDI level turned almost all the way to the left @ the first hash mark. Anything higher than that made the recordings distorted.

 

[JimmyM]

I hope I won't be excessively castigated, but I got my REDDI today, and it's going back. Horrendous sound, nothing like what I've been hearing from clips here and elsewhere. Nothing but fuzzy distortion, like a heavily overdriven guitar.

That totally shouldn't be, Fritz. I agree with Ukiah that it's likely overdriving whatever you're recording it into. The good thing about the level knob on the REDDI is the sound doesn't change regardless of where the level is set. I'd back it down considerably.

If that doesn't work, maybe the tube is ka-flooey. Or maybe it's truly broken. But that certainly shouldn't be happening. As evidenced by the recordings out there, it's a clean DI.

 

[overbybr]

I hope I won't be excessively castigated, but I got my REDDI today, and it's going back. Horrendous sound, nothing like what I've been hearing from clips here and elsewhere. Nothing but fuzzy distortion, like a heavily overdriven guitar.

What is your signal chain?

 

[f.c.geil]

Bass, tuner, DI, Allen&Heath mixer, cans. The through is going to my Ashdwn Spyder 550 to Ampeg PF-115.

 

[CAW]

The REDDI is one massive brick. Be nice to see a rack-mount version of it.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Bass, tuner, DI, Allen&Heath mixer, cans. The through is going to my Ashdwn Spyder 550 to Ampeg PF-115.

If the mixer has a pad on the input channel, have you tried engaging it?

 

[f.c.geil]

Yup. No difference. Good thought, though.