Giving up on Session DI with the M80.

[Lkingston]

After much messing around with my M80 pickup and the Session DI, I've given up and am selling the Session DI on eBay. The problem is that the M80 needs a big wide cut out of the low mid frequencies and the notch on the Session DI is too narrow. The bit of a boost right above and below the notch frequency doesn't help either. I just couldn't get rid of the low resonant frequencies with the Session DI. It sounded great at low volumes, but pushing it at all just gave me a mes of low frequency freedback and resonances. The saturation and EQ/compression only made the low frequency resonances worse.

I went back to my Tech 21 Para DI which seems to correct the resonances in this pickup nicely. That or I might try a Venue.

For anyone looking for a good deal on a Session DI, the buy it now price is $200 with free shipping on eBay. Its like new.

[Rodney_UK]

Hi Kingston,

I recently switched from using the Lyric to the M80 because I couldn't get the sound I wanted with the Lyric at higher volumes.

With the M80 I use Compression, two Eq pedals and a paraDI. I also spent some time adjusting the pole pieces on the M80, the high E is screwed down the most to reduce the metallic sound. The mid pole pieces for G, D and A are also screwed down a bit as well.

I have tried about five Eq pedals over the last two years and at the moment I have the MXR 10 and MXR 6 on my pedal board.

On my paraDI I have only adjusted the presence and treble controls.

I played live the other night in quite a large venue and people who have seen me play over the last two years immediately said that it sounded way better than my previous Lyric set up.

I also pushed the volume and gain on the desk to see where any feedback points would be. Fortunately there weren't any.

I'll try and upload a photo of my EQ settings for you to look at. It might be worth using your SessionDI and adding another EQ pedal to go with it. I have never found a case where one pedal achieved the sound I was looking for.

Regards
Rodney

[Rodney_UK]

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I have got plans to fill that empty space on the board with a reverb pedal

[TheBelontoKid]

That's quite a setup Rodney - it's for an acoustic right?

I notice you have a Keeley compressor in your chain + 2 MXR EQ pedals.

Why do you need the MXR pedals if you have the Para DI?

Also - why not try the Session instead of the Keeley & go all Baggs?

Thnx for the post