Best reamp box (or transformer) for making captures?

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Hello. I wonder if the collective gear mind has reached a consensus regarding which reamp box is best suited for this application? I had originally planned to just buy a transformer and make one, but my recent load box adventure has taught me to fear the rabbit hole :grin
 
Lehle or Signal Arts are likely your best bet.

Lehle doesn't have an output trim though so you'd be at the mercy of whatever you output from your D/A level wise.
 
MirrorProfiles said:
Lehle or Signal Arts are likely your best bet.

Lehle doesn't have an output trim though so you'd be at the mercy of whatever you output from your D/A level wise.
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101% this.

There's a thread with some measurements here:

High Quality Reamp Box Comparison

Great info and discussion! I don't mean to hijack this thread but quick question for the very knowledgeable minds in here... Reamp boxes are recommended by seemingly every resource. But why can't I just use the quarter inch output(s) on my interface and go right to my amp? I want to record DI...
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It's been a little bit of a long time coming but I wanted to report back with my own testing. My setup & workflow are as follows:

  • I reamped a DI track with some guitar playing into the Instrument input (Hi-Z) of my RME UCX II audio interface

  • I calibrated each reamp box to the Instrument input (Hi-Z) by shooting a -12 dBFS @ 1KHz sine via the line out, into each reamp box and back into the instrument input. The reading I got from both loadboxes was the same as whatever I was sending from the DAW via the line out (-12, -6, -3, 0, -18 etc)

  • I reamped the DI track through both the Lehle P-SPLIT III and the Signal Art

  • I aligned the DI and each track to the best of my ability, paying close attention to peaks and "pass through 0" sections

  • I flipped the phase on the "reamped" signal from both loadboxes and used dpMeterXT3 on the Master bus for the entire duration of the DI track

The results are as follows:

  • Lehle P-Split III: -65.1 dBFS Integrated IL

  • Signal Art: -63.9 dBFS Integrated IL

So, the Lehle P-SPLIT III nulls out better by about 1.2 dBFS using my setup.

Audio files & screenshots are available here: https://mega.nz/folder/nswnVCiB#E9DW7BFMzGIszEtHFNPk6w
 
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