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Tell the difference: reddi vs no reddi

Which track was recorded with reddi in signal path?

  • 1

    Votes: 11 11.0%

  • 2

    Votes: 89 89.0%
  • Total voters
    100
#64
An Apogee Duet is $270, so that means there's only $475 worth of difference between them (REDDI's $745 now). And to me, that difference between the Apogee and REDDI is the whole reason I love tube amps way more than SS amps. Both will make great recordings, but only tube amps sound like tube amps, and while the REDDI isn't the only tube DI with true tube amp tone, there aren't very many, and they're all expensive, and the REDDI's probably the best deal. Might not be worth it to everyone, but if something happened to my REDDI, I'd get another one immediately.
 
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#66
F-Clef-Jef said:
I don't hear $700 worth of difference... but that's just me.
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It might not be worth dropping $700 on one for the places and contexts I play in, but I can see it being attractive in certain professional live and recording settings. If your playing, demeanour, and sound are all part of the package that the MD or producer is hiring you for, it could only take one guy offering you another job because he liked the way your sound worked in the mix for it to be worth the $700. The studio guys I know wouldn't think twice about paying that for a mic preamp, so the price is certainly in line with that kind of gear.
 
#70
After doodling with these two wav files in Reaper and using a parametric EQ on them I was able to get them close enough that I got bored with it and quit (boredom is my threshold for many things, e.g. music, cars). I have no reason to think that the difference that I hear is anything other than frequency response, FWIW. They both appear to be very clean DIs that can be EQ'd to sound like something you would like.
 
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#77
Alright I think there's been enough input. I find results interesting. Track #2 is reddi and it looks like it's quite obvious since it got 60 votes out of 69 votes in total. If we count in thobbinghotrod's explanation it's 61 votes for #2 against 8 votes for #1. Roughly speaking that's 9 out of 10 for reddi and if I remember correctly Jimmy's tube challenge IV gave similar results. Whether reddi is worth it's price or not... It would be interesting to do another test like this but with full band mixes and/or with a different question: which one do you like better.
 
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galore said:
Alright I think there's been enough input. I find results interesting. Track #2 is reddi and it looks like it's quite obvious since it got 60 votes out of 69 votes in total. If we count in thobbinghotrod's explanation it's 61 votes for #2 against 8 votes for #1. Roughly speaking that's 9 out of 10 for reddi and if I remember correctly Jimmy's tube challenge IV gave similar results. Whether reddi is worth it's price or not... It would be interesting to do another test like this but with full band mixes and/or with a different question: which one do you like better.
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Yep, did mine with a REDDI vs a VT Deluxe, and while IMHO the VTD came off quite well in that comparo, 73% correctly picked the REDDI. As for a full band mix, it's still quite obvious as far as I'm concerned. Maybe not as much in the low notes, but my band does a lot of 50's-60's-70's where the bass plays a lot of high notes, and that's where it becomes most obvious. Other DI's make the high notes lose their bottom, but with the REDDI they have as much meaty heft to them as the low notes. That's how I was able to correctly ID the REDDI in your test.
 

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