Hi. I just received a Valvulator GPDI/IR today and, because there doesn’t yet seem to be a manual available, I emailed some questions to the support email, which came back with the information that the forum was actually the correct place for asking this stuff, so…
I’ll be connecting the Valvulator to my DAW via a Focusrite Clarett 8PreX, and so would like to know whether the two ‘IR OUT’ & ‘ANALOG OUT’ XLR outputs (both of which are marked ‘MIC’) should be connected to Mic inputs or Line inputs on the back of the interface?
Similarly, is the ‘DIRECT OUT’ XLR output similar to that of a D.I. (in other words, to be treated as a line level input once it hits the interface), or is it more of a straight thru’ signal that would be better connected to an Instrument input? [In one of the vids on the site, I think that the latter was implied?]
My final question was simply to ask if there’s a list of the loaded IRs, and where they’re located in the banks?
Great questions, and yes, you are in the right place!
Let me check on the progress with the user manual and get back to you.
The IR and Analogoutputs are transparently buffered so they are line-level signals. Go unbalanced with the jack socket or balanced with the XLR. I need to check on what the “mic” label is meant to imply. The XLR as a microphone level, as indicated by the label “mic”. See here for more information https://www.fryette.com/content/GPDI-IR_Manual.pdf
The DirectOut is literally your guitar signal buffered by the V1 tube and sent out as a balanced signal to the XLR. This will be below line level, suitable for connecting to an external amp.
That almost answers my question.
But to be sure, the DI is also fed from reamp in?
As in one could use it as a reamp box going into other amps.
And if so, can I feed the reamp signal into the GPDI-IR take the DI feed ito another preamp or amp and then return it via it’s out or fx loop in the case of an amp into the fx return of GPDI-IR?
Thanks
I think the signal flow of the malcontents rig might answer it. I go check.
Yes, you are right! You can feed a signal in to REAMP and get a tube buffered version of the same signal (but otherwise unaltered) back out by connecting to DIRECT OUT.
Note the warning “Disconnect front panel input to use this feature”. this is because both front panel INPUT and the back panel REAMP connect to the input of V1 in the preamp tube.
