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[Dave Weber]

I have a Baggs Para DI that only works on 9v battery or Phantom power from the mixer. Since it's a preamp, I'm wondering if it's ok to run the o/p into a mic input on the mackie mixer .. it's the only way to get the phantom to work. I'm concerned about running a preamp into another preamp.

Any thoughts?

Dave

[Andy Peters]

Dave Weber wrote on Wed, 30 December 2009 16:18

I have a Baggs Para DI that only works on 9v battery or Phantom power from the mixer. Since it's a preamp, I'm wondering if it's ok to run the o/p into a mic input on the mackie mixer .. it's the only way to get the phantom to work. I'm concerned about running a preamp into another preamp.

Yes, this thing is a preamp/DI, and its XLR output is designed to connect to a console mic preamp input jack with phantom power.

-a

[Scott Helmke (Scodiddly)]

It'll work.

[Patrick Campbell]

Dave Weber wrote on Wed, 30 December 2009 17:18

I have a Baggs Para DI that only works on 9v battery or Phantom power from the mixer. Since it's a preamp, I'm wondering if it's ok to run the o/p into a mic input on the mackie mixer .. it's the only way to get the phantom to work. I'm concerned about running a preamp into another preamp. Any thoughts? Dave

get friendly with "pad buttons" on unit and console if need be - it'll keep ya out of the red

[Lester Moran]

Here's the frequencies and bandwidths for the Baggs, you might find it useful:





FWIW,

Les

[Jeff Hague]

Absolutely! I use a (cheap) ART Tube Pre as a DI for acoustic guitar straight into a channel and it sounds great. The only thing I dont like is that you cant phantom power the Art Tube pre so I have to have ac for it on stage...

[Mark Gensman]

I carry a couple of LR Baggs para DI's to my live gigs.

They work great for acoustic guitars, acoustic bass with pickups, etc. Just about any instrument with a pickup can benefit from a Baggs unit.

Plus being phantom powered, you don't have to worry about the battery going dead in the middle of a set.

Great units.

[Walter Wright]

Lester Moran wrote on Wed, 30 December 2009 18:52

Here's the frequencies and bandwidths for the Baggs, you might find it useful: FWIW, Les

the two sweepable bands are that wide? i'd have thought they'd be narrower, as they seem designed more for notching feedback than for tone-shaping, to the point that some folks (myself included) feel like they're sometimes not wide enough to do the job.

did you run the box through something to come up with those figures?