Hmm. My current idea is to use the Behringer headphone amp as a booster before the DI box to give it a little more juice, maybe even taking one of the other headphone channels as a personal monitor, provided I can still hear the band mix from the monitors. I have been using the GT2 before the DI box as my 'amp in a box', but everything on that had to be absolutely cranked to get the signal within normal operating ranges in the mixer.Originally Posted by markb
I think you are addressing my real question here, which is how voltages and signal strength are related. My understanding of line level was that it had mostly to do with a low impedance signal, but I did a brief search after I read this and it seems like there is a 1V reference voltage for line level, so I see your point. I take it a preamp serves to mostly increase the voltage then?
One last point/question: I thought a DI box was more or less a transformer, which I thought was really just a voltage changer. Why must voltage be addressed separately before the DI box?
Thanks for all of the info.