5:50 into a mixing board?

[DennyBob]

Hello all,

I have an Express 5:50 2x12 that I've been trying to send a signal to our mixing board using the effects send output. This has worked quite nicely with other amps in the past, but this one seems to overdrive the board (we've played with the gain on the board as well) and my guitar sounds like frying bacon - crispy and fried.

Does anyone have any suggestions, experience on this?

I'm about ready to just Mic the amp . . .

Thanks,

 

[rwil]

Maybe the other amps was having kind of recording/headphone out, or maybe having very clean settings.
Otherwise as soon that you start to saturate tubes, it is normal afaik to get that fuzzy/frying sound.
For direct recording you can look something like the radial passive JDI k3 since it is not only a great DI, but also able to tap the wet signal from the speaker. But it is not a loadbox, so you can't do silent recording since you have to keep the speaker connected to the amplifier.
If you want silent recording you need a loadbox. I posted here sometime ago many links around loadbox.
For my own purpose I'm using a mix silent recording using the Koch loadbox LB-120 II & the radial JDI.
I like very much the result, but it is a bit expensive.

 

[EtherealWidow]

Well all you're getting is the preamp sound which is obviously where most of the distortion is produced. Not all amps are going to sound the same thru it. I was actually going to use the same method for awhile until I thought about it and realized that you'd be totally bypassing the power section (including the class A, class A/B settings) which really pissed me off. Like the other guy said, you'd be better off just getting the radial d/i box that goes between the head and the speaker. Sorry if I didn't really tell you anything new.

 

[MusicManJP6]

You can use a DI if it has a speaker simulator built-in. You'd want to use your slave out so you capture the tone of your power section as well. Otherwise, you can just mic it! Make sure to always have a speaker load connected to your amp so you don't fry your transformer!

 

[captain_jim]

Don't forget that the high the master volume is....or just the louder the amp is period (because less gain will give less volume and vice vera) the FX send loop signal will get larger as well. So if you are playing the amp at playing levels then that could be the case. I know I play while using a mixing board to send the guitar to venue speakers (which doesn't sound great but that's all I can do for now) and my volume is usually barely on because anything more will simply make the mixing board unusable (even with the gain on the board down).