Recording with a series I guitar vs Stratocaster Ultra?

[jazzyvee]

I've got a short notice and really rare, recording session tomorrow night. It's to re-do some of my original guitar part that was recorded last year on a live video shoot gig  for a new artiste.
Originally I played my strat ultra on the gig and so am bringing that for sound continuity. However if I have to redo the whole take I wonder if I should use the series I guitar. If so what do you recommend my setup be for recording.


I was thinking of going from my DS-5 with it in mono so getting both pickup outputs from the bass jack and then feeding my pedal board from the treble output which will just be the bridge pickup. That way the engineer gets both pickups as a clean sound and the bridge pickup as an additional track with the effects on that he can blend to suit.
Any suggestions?

[lbpesq]

Not sure I understand this.  Are you describing using both outputs on the DS-5?  I have always assumed that if you employ the treble out, it separates the two signals and the mono/bass out losses the treble (bridge PU) signal and becomes just a bass (neck PU) output.  It seems to me, for your idea to work, the mono/bass output would have to function as a mono (both PUs) output regardless of whether anything is plugged into the treble output.  Am I missing something?

Bill, tgo

[mica]

The newest version of the DS-5 gives a mono output from both outputs when in the mono mode.

[jazzyvee]

I know it sounds wierd Bill, but if I put the DS-5 into stereo, then yes I get the neck output from the bass jack and the bridge output from the treble jack as you would expect. However if I throw the switch to mono, I get neck and bridge signal through the bass jack and bridge only through the treble. Basically whatever you do with it you always get the neck pickup output from the treble jack.
When i've used this method before is when gigging using my roland JC120 and with the two channels I can balance the volume of both pickups through channel 1 and  bridge only volume with effects only through channel 2.

That sounds good Mica as when on bass I could give the sound guy one of the outputs for the DI.
Is there any chance of a mod diagram for existing units?
Now that reminds me of something else I wanted to ask on the forum, if the DS-5 output was plugged into a phantom powered stage DI box is there any danger of causing damage to the electronics in my series bass and similarly for non series basses?

[edwin]

"Now that reminds me of something else I wanted to ask on the forum, if the DS-5 output was plugged into a phantom powered stage DI box is there any danger of causing damage to the electronics in my series bass and similarly for non series basses? "


I don't see how. DI boxes have some sort of circuitry (either active or passive) that isolate the source from the PA and if there is phantom power, it should stop at the DI box. The only harm that I could see happening is to the DI box (or to the DI outs of my Eden Navigator. It has suffered damage a couple of times, which is due to a stupid design on their part).