Re: Bad Repeater Experience (Rant)

[Brett Maraldo <plexus@sympatico.ca>]

don;t wonder. the repeaer is fantastic. i think the problem  is a 
gain matching issue. i use primarily synths and have my electrix gear 
on the sends and returns of my hot mixer. the noise level is almost 
inaudible. my friend, who is a guitar player, is constantly 
struggling with noise because he is using a mic level instrument and 
line level effects.

ideally you should have a gain/impedance matching strategy if you are 
going to use line gear in a mic system (mic, in this case meaning 
guitar). like a small rack mixer with sends and returns.

the front jack on the repeater is designed to match mic level signals 
better and it might best to use that for your guitar. but you will 
still be coming out line level.

impedance matching is very important (this isn't gain). for the 
lowest noise levels you need to match both gain and impedance.

an amateur just plugging a device into his system will be met with 
varying results because of the mismatching.

plexus

>I'm just about ready to purchase a repeater or an echoplex, and all
>these bad things I keep hearing about the repeater makes me wonder. But
>the people who have repeaters that have no problems seem to love them.
>I'm scared. I dont want to get a lemon. Is anyone having problems with
>their echoplex? Thanx, Bill