Q about Tone Hammer pre-amp DI

[HeadWind]

Not sure if this belongs in "amps/cabs", "effects", of "live sound", but here goes.

Am thinking about getting a Tone Hammer pre-amp/DI pedal. Motivations are:

1. Planning an amp upgrade and was thinking going pre-amp/power-amp. Plenty of reports about how the TH can easily drive a poweramp.
2. Band is purchasing a new PA, and we want to make sure I have the capability to go directly through a DI to the PA.

I ran this by our guitarist who is heading up the PA buying research. Wanted to make sure the TH would feed the PA right for the equipment he's looking at. He had some questions I couldn't answer for sure:

• Is the DI (XLR) output pre-amped? Or is just the 1/4" output preamped?
• If the DI is pre-amped, does that mean that we'd have to feed it to the PA console via a line-level in input? If so, that would impact what PA consoles we'd look at.
• Can you use both the DI (to PA console) and 1/4" (to poweramp and cab) simultaneously? I am almost certain the answer is yes (been reading lots of threads on this), but double checking. Using the 1/4" to a power amp/cab would just be for my stage monitoring purposes if we were also DI-ing to the PA.

Thanks!

 

[Jeff Scott]

This is a preamp, so even though it is in pedal format your thread does belong here.

The Tone Hammer pedal will do everything you need it to do. You can run the 1/4" out to your amp and the XLR out goes to the PA mixer; you can choose that signal to be either pre or post EQ, so whatever is needed for the PA can be supplied to it. Most quality mixing consoles' mic preamps can handle a line level signal, that is what the input gain/trim/etc. control is for, to adjust for varying amounts of input level.

 

[Al Kraft]

You can go pre or post from the pedal to the board using the XLR out with no problem on any quality mixer with an adjustable channel gain that I am aware of - nothing really special or unique needed. You can certainly drive some power amps with it or use it to pre-shape tone going to the input or effects loop of your regular bass head.

I've used this with many different mixers (powered and non-powered) with absolutely fantastic results. I hope that's helpful.

 

[MattLplaysBass]

just make sure you get a model with more mic input channels than you think you actually need, they will eventually get filled up.

The BEST mixer advice you can give.