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Alembic products => Alembic Basses & Guitars => Topic started by: jazzyvee on February 06, 2014, 02:10:03 AM

Title: Is it ok to use a preamp with no load?
Post by: jazzyvee on February 06, 2014, 02:10:03 AM

Many of the gigs i'm doing these days have a back line so we take the opportunity to travel light. However usually this means I get a less than good bass rig. I know JJ uses a DI on stage and a monitor but I'd like to take my F1-x at these gigs and use the DI on that. I have done this in the past and plugged into the return on the bass rig so as to bypass the pre-amp but many times the bass sounds rubbish still so on those occasions I'd like to use the  the F1-x basically as a DI without anything connected to the rear output(s)?
 
I've read somewhere that it is not a good idea to use a valve amp with no load so would that also apply to a valve pre-amp ?
 
 
Jazzyvee

Title: Is it ok to use a preamp with no load?
Post by: slawie on February 06, 2014, 02:47:51 AM

No problem at all.  
Preamps do not need a load.
It's not the same as a power amplifier.  
 
Slawie

Title: Is it ok to use a preamp with no load?
Post by: jazzyvee on February 06, 2014, 04:43:45 AM

Thanks for that Slawie.  
 
Jazzyvee