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WA TB12 with bass

Hello guys i just bought WA Invalid Link Removed and i am considering to rec my bass using this chain

Bass > hi z input WA TB 12 xlr out > hi z input Invalid Link Removed line out trs cable > return input of Invalid Link Removed

Ok is this is a good choice to use the preamp of WA Invalid Link Removed and from Avalon only as DI and then bypassing Audient's pre ?
 
If you only want to experiment, o.k., but otherwise it is an absurd use of the WA12. You use a mic-preamp with a Hi-Z-input as a DI. The job of a DI is to transform a Hi-Z signal to mic-level. This is exactly what the WA12 is doing, but it is doing even more: 'cause it is a mic preamp it transforms the mic-level signal to line level.
The Avalon is a bit special, 'cause it is doing exactly the same: it offers not just mic-level as most DIs, but line level too. So both of your units are doing exactly the same. Only the WA12 has - as a mic preamp - no mic-level output. And the Avalon - as a DI - has no line level input.

Only line-level comes out of the XLR-out of the WA12. To put this line level signal into another DI into an input that expects a pure guitar or bass signal (Hi-Z) doesn't make any sense.

If you want to use the sound of the Avalon + the TB12 in your chain, it goes like this: bass into Avalon. Then the mic-level output of the Avalon into the mic-in of the TB12. Or the line-level output of the Avalon into the TRS-input on the front of the TB-12 that is switched to line (simply press the line button on the right of the Hi-Z button on the frontplate.) The Avalon should always be first in the chain, 'cause it simply doesn't have a line input, but all of the outputs of the TB12 are line level. I only own the TB12, not the Avalon. If I understand the through TSR output on the front correctly this gives Hi-Z level output, so if this is the case you could although use the Hi-Z input of the TB12 if you're using the through output on the Avalon.

Why did you buy the TB12? You don't seem to have the basic knowledge what a mic-preamp or / and a DI are doing?
If you don't have a second use for the WA12 - using it as a mic-preamp for vocals for example - you kind of own two rather expensive tools that do the same in a different way. Might have made more sense to - for example - buy the WA76 from Warm Audio. Just saying...
 
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If you only want to experiment, o.k., but otherwise it is an absurd use of the WA12. You use a mic-preamp with a Hi-Z-input as a DI. The job of a DI is to transform a Hi-Z signal to mic-level. This is exactly what the WA12 is doing, but it is doing even more: 'cause it is a mic preamp it transforms the mic-level signal to line level.
The Avalon is a bit special, 'cause it is doing exactly the same: it offers not just mic-level as most DIs, but line level too. So both of your units are doing exactly the same. Only the WA12 has - as a mic preamp - no mic-level output. And the Avalon - as a DI - has no line level input.

Only line-level comes out of the XLR-out of the WA12. To put this line level signal into another DI into an input that expects a pure guitar or bass signal (Hi-Z) doesn't make any sense.

If you want to use the sound of the Avalon + the TB12 in your chain, it goes like this: bass into Avalon. Then the mic-level output of the Avalon into the mic-in of the TB12. Or the line-level output of the Avalon into the TRS-input on the front of the TB-12 that is switched to line (simply press the line button on the right of the Hi-Z button on the frontplate.) The Avalon should always be first in the chain, 'cause it simply doesn't have a line input, but all of the outputs of the TB12 are line level. I only own the TB12, not the Avalon. If I understand the through TSR output on the front correctly this gives Hi-Z level output, so if this is the case you could although use the Hi-Z input of the TB12 if you're using the through output on the Avalon.

Why did you buy the TB12? You don't seem to have the basic knowledge what a mic-preamp or / and a DI are doing?
If you don't have a second use for the WA12 - using it as a mic-preamp for vocals for example - you kind of own two rather expensive tools that do the same in a different way. Might have made more sense to - for example - buy the WA76 from Warm Audio. Just saying...

Ok i got it! I experience problems with my avalon... something is defected and this is the second time doing that issues so i was thinking of selling it and thats why tb came. But then i want to ask here the forum to see if these both units can combine somehow! So from what i get right now i am thinking after fixing and selling avalon maybe pair the tb12 with wa76 :)
 
Ok i got it! I experience problems with my avalon... something is defected and this is the second time doing that issues so i was thinking of selling it and thats why tb came. But then i want to ask here the forum to see if these both units can combine somehow! So from what i get right now i am thinking after fixing and selling avalon maybe pair the tb12 with wa76 :)

That is a very good idea. I first bought the WA76. You need line level for the WA76, so I got a mic-preamp from GAP and later the TB12. The WA76 - this is just my personal taste and experience - had a far bigger impact on my sound than the preamps. After buying the WA76 I had the impression after many years of playing - that I sound like on a record. This said: I'm not into amp sounds or distortion etc. at all. I just like to plug in directly with a bit of transformer sound and this is what the WA76 besides very fast compression gives me.
Compared to most footpedal compressors - maybe with the exception of the Cali76 - the WA76 sounds much better.
 
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That is a very good idea. I first bought the WA76. You need line level for the WA76, so I got a mic-preamp from GAP and later the TB12. The WA76 - this is just my personal taste and experience - had a far bigger impact on my sound than the preamps. After buying the WA76 I had the impression after many years of playing - that I sound like on a record. This said: I'm not into amp sounds or distortion etc. at all. I just like to plug in directly with a bit of transformer sound and this is what the WA76 besides very fast compression gives me.
Compared to most footpedal compressors - maybe with the exception of the Cali76 - the WA76 sounds much better.

Yes i am at the same boat, only recording direct no mics and cabs!

Now i am using a plugin compressor MJUC Overview with very good results but i want WA76 for sure!

When i will buy wa76 you must tell me everything you know! hahaha
 
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