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Re: DL4 and high level signal...



Miko,

My experience with the DL4, and also Line6's POD is that they are designed
to work with a signal coming from a guitar.  As soon as they get a line
level signal, they clip pretty easily.  I tried using my pod as a insert on
guitar tracks on a recent recording and we had to mess around a bit to pad
the signal coming into the pod.  I imagine the DL4 is similar in that it
has no input level control (again, like the POD).

I have been running my bass preamp (tech21 bass driver) after the dl-4, and
was planning to experiment and place it before after i get the holidays
over with.  I will post the results if anything weird comes up.  

Is there any sort of clip indicator on the DL4, or are you just hearing the
distortion?

later,

rich


At 11:09 AM 12/20/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Well... I've decided to return my Line6 DL4 for the following reason.
>
>I tend to run my GT-5 fairly hot to my Mackie 1202VLZ mixer... Usually
around +3 - +6 db. I inititially tested the DL4 in the GT-5 mono fx loop
which apparently doesn't run at that level. The loop seems to work well
with stomp boxes. So I did that for about a week, listening with delight to
my new delay modeller wonder box... no distortion.
>
>This weekend, I decided to check out the stereo capabilities POST GT-5
into my mixer (and into my Korg AM8000r as well as the EDP) and found that
I had to lower the output level of the GT-5 quite a lot to eliminate
digital distortion in the DL4. This might have been ok to a certain degree,
but the level is in the -4 and below range which makes mixing a bit of a
hassle. I end up boosting things everywhere and generate more noise
throughout my system. So as much as I actually love the box, I'm making the
hard decision to let go of it. Ouch...
>
>Just wanted to see if any of you are trying your DL4's in these sort of
applications and getting similar results?
>
>Best,
>-Miko
>
>