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STUDIO + RECORDING TECHNIQUES / Hi-Z vs. DI
« on: November 16, 2011, 08:37:10 am »
Hello people - been lurking round here for a while, but this is my first post.
I wondered if I could ask a pretty basic question that net searching hasn't been able to provide a conclusive answer to. I currently record guitar/pedals direct via a hi-z ('instrument') input on a small Mackie mixer. My general approach is just to plug stuff in, and if it sounds ok then not to worry about the 'right' way of doing things, but I've noticed recently that I have to crank the gain quite high on the mixer channel to get a decent recording level from the pedal output - and this increases background noise (which is obviously worse the longer the pedal chain is).
So my question is - if I were to put the signal through a DI box before going in to the mixer would it help get a better recording level? Is this not what the hi-z input is meant to be doing though?
(I know addressing background noise in the pedal chain is probably a separate issue)
Any advice appreciated...
I wondered if I could ask a pretty basic question that net searching hasn't been able to provide a conclusive answer to. I currently record guitar/pedals direct via a hi-z ('instrument') input on a small Mackie mixer. My general approach is just to plug stuff in, and if it sounds ok then not to worry about the 'right' way of doing things, but I've noticed recently that I have to crank the gain quite high on the mixer channel to get a decent recording level from the pedal output - and this increases background noise (which is obviously worse the longer the pedal chain is).
So my question is - if I were to put the signal through a DI box before going in to the mixer would it help get a better recording level? Is this not what the hi-z input is meant to be doing though?
(I know addressing background noise in the pedal chain is probably a separate issue)
Any advice appreciated...