Matty Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 (edited) Hey guys. Quick question, please be prepared to shoot me down in flames. I love my active basses, but also love my Wooly mamooth. As many of us know, the to are destined to be mostly mutual friends and nothing more. However, I have seen some discussion of the use of a buffer to change the low impedence of an active to simulate the high impedence of a passive bass. given that this is basically the opposite of what a passive DI box does, is it possible to feed my bass into the output of the DI, and feed the pedal fromt eh the input? As it's Passive and basically just a transformer, I can't see why it shouldn't work, but then i have very little knowledge in the ways of electronics and impendence. Just a thought. Matt edit: In fact, my wireless receiver has a balanced output, so if it works, i could go back to running round like a fool too... Edited December 30, 2009 by Matty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannybuoy Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 You can use them in reverse for re-amping where you can send a clean recorded bass track back out to a bass amp, but I'm not sure if it'll work for your purpose. However, this little circuit will do what you want if you can get someone to build it for you: [url="http://www.muzique.com/lab/pickups.htm"]http://www.muzique.com/lab/pickups.htm[/url] Alternatively chop the Mammoth in for a Zvex Mastotron or Chunk Brown Dog which can get similar tones and work with actives! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umph Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 or stick a 15k resistor in front of the input of the circuit to make it work with active basses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Fly Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 [quote name='umph' post='696526' date='Dec 30 2009, 05:47 PM']or stick a 15k resistor in front of the input of the circuit to make it work with active basses.[/quote] It should to the trick Or even better connect a 50k trimpot and find the right value for you bass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted December 31, 2009 Author Share Posted December 31, 2009 But won't that just affect level, rather than impedence? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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