DI C/D?

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I bought my bass amp because it sounds lovely. I most certainly didn't spend five hundred quid for soundmen to plug my bass into a D/I box which is stuck into the input, leaving me with a very expensive, glorified, monitor. Bah!

Why is this done? Why don't they just mic the amp? Bah!

― Ben Dot (1977), Saturday, 26 August 2006 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

idiot

― prince girlsheart (Pablo A), Saturday, 26 August 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps they think that one less mic to worry about placing and turning on at the right time, the better. When I played a week ago, the sound woman forgot to turn on my vocal mic until we stopped playing the first song in silent protest. Mebbe she thought I had a DI.

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Saturday, 26 August 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

i like to combine the DI and mic'd amp sounds. each on their own isn't quite there

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Saturday, 26 August 2006 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

classic, one of my favorite bands of all time. ian crause even posted on this board!

― jklx, Sunday, 27 August 2006 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

Soundman's job is to make you sound good, not to make his own life easier. If you don't want DI, say so.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 27 August 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

I cannot overstate the degree to which my life got better when I stopped carrying around a bass amp. Given the general stage size and sound reinforcement situation I'm actually in, in most clubs--and given what they audience will actually hear and care about, the cost/benefit is easy to figure.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Monday, 28 August 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Meanwhile, crappy PAs = D.

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 06:34 (nineteen years ago)

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