Hello,

because I get to dick around with musical instruments all day, it means I come across quite a lot of interesting stuff, so I thought certain parties on here might want to talk about it. No? No. Oh.

Anyway: this week I have been playing with impedance correction stuff like this:

http://www.dv247.com/guitars/motu-zbox--71397

The theory being that when you go guitar > analogue chain > amplifier, there's a certain level of impedance that colours the tone you know and love.

When you start recording with preamp inputs, or putting your signal through mixers, PAs or wireless kits, it's a different, mismatched impedance.

I was a bit skeptical that this affected the tone at all, but it does, a fair bit. It tightens everything up to an odd extent, and it gives you a thinner sound than you'd been expecting.

This analogue circuit effectively corrects the impedance by appearing in the chain immediately before the input, and leaves your signal remaining completely accurate to a guitar/amp equivalent.

At £30 (there are some Radial and PRS Waves ones for more) that's actually quite a doable fix. I'm actually going to buy one.

Anyway, I know some of you record, so I thought I'd mention it!

Sorry for the company jag, Theo. Illustrating a point rather than shameless I hope!