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hieronymous
Junior
Username: hieronymous

Post Number: 16
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Saturday, October 01, 2005 - 8:27 am:   Edit Post

Hi, I haven't posted in a while, but here I am! I found a used F2B at a store in Osaka (I live in Kyoto which is fairly close by) - it looks to be an older one, appearance-wise it doesn't look like the one pictured on the website. I haven't tried it out yet - I plan to next time I go back.

My question is this: I would like to use it as a preamp before going into my computer - I use a slightly older Mac G4 PowerBook that I bought in 2002 with the MBox. Can I take the outs from the back of the F2B and plug them directly into the MBox? Or will I need something in between them?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give!
hieronymous
Junior
Username: hieronymous

Post Number: 17
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 1:08 am:   Edit Post

Never mind - I bought it and it works fine! In fact, it's great!!! I love the fact that it's stereo - I can do one clean channel and one distorted, right into the MBox...
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 2426
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 5:31 am:   Edit Post

I actually tried to research this when you posted, but I wasn't very successful and time is quite limited at the moment. Glad it works for you.
hieronymous
Junior
Username: hieronymous

Post Number: 18
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 7:10 am:   Edit Post

Wow! Thanks Dave! Yeah, it seems like everything I found talked about going from the outputs into a power amp. I am neither techie enough nor experienced enough to know the differences between different kinds of outputs. So I asked a few people and got the answer I needed to be able to give it a whirl.

Hopefully this will help someone else in the future too! Plus, it is so cool using a classic analog design (the preamp is older too) with current digital technology...
adriaan
Senior Member
Username: adriaan

Post Number: 623
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 7:20 am:   Edit Post

By the way, it's not stereo but dual channel. Stereo would be two channels with just one set of controls.
hieronymous
Junior
Username: hieronymous

Post Number: 19
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 7:31 am:   Edit Post

Alembic calls it stereo, and that's good enough for me! :-)
adriaan
Senior Member
Username: adriaan

Post Number: 624
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 7:34 am:   Edit Post

Main thing is it's working for you!
hieronymous
Junior
Username: hieronymous

Post Number: 20
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 8:11 am:   Edit Post

Hi adriaan, hope my answer wasn't too flippant. I've seen the whole stereo thing argued elsewhere - I think it was the Rickenbacker forum - and I've pretty much come to accept anything two-channel as stereo for the most part. I think it all depends on who you ask. Is a bass run with the signal split so that one channel is clean and bassy and the other trebly and effected stereo? Some would say yes, others no (and Rickenbacker calls it Rick-o-sound, though I don't really see the point - I prefer to split the signal after it comes out of the bass...) But like you say, it works!!!

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