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Monday me and the boys are getting together to Reamp some DIs. Don’t have a Reamp box though…. Thought maybe I’d pick one up somewhere this weekend but it seems that isn’t an option as no stores around here seem to have any in stock (gonna call the used shop here when they open soon in a last ditch effort)

But… failing that trying to wrap my head around alternative options


Option A: I have an HX Stomp and my bass player has a quad cortex. In my brain I feel like either or these should work fine as there’s control over like line/instrument levels as well as impedance controls on these units no? Unless I’m missing something here that would make this problematic

Option B: running a passive DI box “in reverse”… I’ve been finding stuff online about this, although it sounds like it might be noisy/not sound very good?

Option C: finally I’ve found a couple posts online saying that simply sending the signal through a boss pedal kind of works due to the buffer but this seems like far too much of an oversimplification ?


Appreciate any advice input, never done this before!

I tried a DI backwards. The Palmer reamp box was definitely better. I know this isn't what you wanted to hear

The modeler should work well for this. Set the input to line level, output to instrument level. Reamp away.

Guitarbilly wrote: ↑Sat Jan 18, 2025 11:17 pm The modeler should work well for this. Set the input to line level, output to instrument level. Reamp away.

Yeah this is what I’m thinking should be pretty straightforward that way (hopefully lol)

Trying to Google people doing this isn’t very helpful as it just brings up discussions of reamping digital tones for either, no one seems to be using a modeller to Reamp to real amplifiers

I reamped through a direct box in reverse, before I got my reamp box.
It worked and sounded fine. You need an adapter to get everything hooked up.

I stumbled across a decent method about a year ago. You run the di'd guitar out of your interface quarter inch output and into a boss pedal bypassed. The Boss buffer will get it down to a more instrument level signal.

So using the modellers worked great!! We did use my bass players QC as the “Reamp box” as I’m more of “use the actual FX we’d use live on the record” rather than adding in post and I’m using the stomp for a few things

The QC doesn’t have a simple “line/instrument” option like the stomp but just set it to -12dB and we were gravy.

​Now we DID have some noise issues (particularly with my Mark IV) that I’m a little concerned about, but those were completely independent from any reamping stuff, would’ve been dealing with that even if I was live tracking