DI Tone for newbies.

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DI Tone for newbies.

Post by KentNZ »

Hey here's a question I'd like to throw out to y'all;

I have a bunch of young guys fairly new to guitar, all playing electric and all DI. Running through a TC Nova system but what is a bit nasty is nobody is running through proper amp models or Sansamps even (which is what I use when DI)... We haven't got an amp room and everyone's running punky bridge humbuckers...

Anyway. Question. How do I introduce the ideas of tone and how to talk through that, and what initial things should we look at.

I was going to set up my Ryan built tube beauty, my Sansamps Blonde and a pure DI mixer and do some ABing, and also, play with clean vs drives and also pickup choices bridge neck etc.

Any other newbie tips?
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Re: DI Tone for newbies.

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I would definitely show them a guitar plugged in DI to show what an amp does to the eq, then show them a distortion pedal DI'd and how nasty it sounds compared to through an amp or amp sim. It's a good demo of the kinds of things an amp does to tone.
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Re: DI Tone for newbies.

Post by Vince »

Delayman wrote:I would definitely show them a guitar plugged in DI to show what an amp does to the eq, then show them a distortion pedal DI'd and how nasty it sounds compared to through an amp or amp sim. It's a good demo of the kinds of things an amp does to tone.
+1 I think it's the sort of difference that you have to hear.

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