Author Topic: F2B question(s) (Read 137 times)

hieronymous · « **on:** October 01, 2005, 08:27:26 AM »

Hi, I haven't posted in a while, but here I am! I found a used F2B at a store in Osaka (I live in Kyoto which is fairly close by) - it looks to be an older one, appearance-wise it doesn't look like the one pictured on the website. I haven't tried it out yet - I plan to next time I go back.

My question is this: I would like to use it as a preamp before going into my computer - I use a slightly older Mac G4 PowerBook that I bought in 2002 with the MBox. Can I take the outs from the back of the F2B and plug them directly into the MBox? Or will I need something in between them?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give!

hieronymous · « **Reply #1 on:** October 04, 2005, 01:08:03 AM »

Never mind - I bought it and it works fine! In fact, it's great!!! I love the fact that it's stereo - I can do one clean channel and one distorted, right into the MBox...

David Houck · « **Reply #2 on:** October 04, 2005, 05:31:54 AM »

I actually tried to research this when you posted, but I wasn't very successful and time is quite limited at the moment. Glad it works for you.

hieronymous · « **Reply #3 on:** October 04, 2005, 07:10:32 AM »

Wow! Thanks Dave! Yeah, it seems like everything I found talked about going from the outputs into a power amp. I am neither techie enough nor experienced enough to know the differences between different kinds of outputs. So I asked a few people and got the answer I needed to be able to give it a whirl.

Hopefully this will help someone else in the future too! Plus, it is so cool using a classic analog design (the preamp is older too) with current digital technology...

adriaan · « **Reply #4 on:** October 04, 2005, 07:20:52 AM »

By the way, it's not stereo but dual channel. Stereo would be two channels with just one set of controls.

hieronymous · « **Reply #5 on:** October 04, 2005, 07:31:45 AM »

Alembic calls it stereo, and that's good enough for me!

adriaan · « **Reply #6 on:** October 04, 2005, 07:34:09 AM »

Main thing is it's working for you!

hieronymous · « **Reply #7 on:** October 05, 2005, 08:11:03 AM »

Hi adriaan, hope my answer wasn't too flippant. I've seen the whole stereo thing argued elsewhere - I think it was the Rickenbacker forum - and I've pretty much come to accept anything two-channel as stereo for the most part. I think it all depends on who you ask. Is a bass run with the signal split so that one channel is clean and bassy and the other trebly and effected stereo? Some would say yes, others no (and Rickenbacker calls it Rick-o-sound, though I don't really see the point - I prefer to split the signal after it comes out of the bass...) But like you say, it works!!!