About 10 years ago I built a 4-channel Reamp and 4-channel DI in a rack chassis for my control room, because like many others I like to send things out to amps, pedals, Leslie, etc. when I’m mixing, but I hate clutter and didn’t want a bunch of individual boxes all over my rack. I was new to DIY at the time, and never liked how my Reamp turned out (wrong transformer ratio choice on my end, and some other mistakes), and I didn’t add an impedance control. The Cinemag DI’s sounded great though, so I also regretted making it a permanent control room rack fixture when there were times I could’ve used the extra DI’s in the studio while tracking. I recently discovered a couple of old Jensen JE-11P’s while reorganizing all of my parts, ordered two more JT-11P’s, and decided to redo it in a box that can be used in the control room or out in the studio. Since I had two extra Bo Hansen DI pcb’s (thanks Volker!) I added those to it, as well. The 4 Reamp ins and 4 passive DI outs connect to a DB25 that I ran to my patchbay, along with two XLR’s for the Bo’s. I also made a DB25 to male XLR snake so I can disconnect the box from the rack and use it in the studio. CAPI has a great little DB25 pcb that made the wiring for inside the box a breeze (thanks @jsteiger). The Reamp is standard Jensen schematic, and the DI’s follow the Cinemag schematic. It all sounds fantastic now! I listened to music through it for hours on my monitors and headphones, going from console > Reamp > DI > AEA RPQ, and A/B-ing it sounded identical once I got the impedance dialed in. I know none of this is earth-shattering and is pretty basic to most people in here, but I greatly enjoyed the fabrication and love how it turned out. I thank each of you in here for what I’ve learned along the way!
I designed the internal plate that everything mounts to and the ring that sandwiches the Hammond enclosure panel between it and the front panel in Autocad and had it made by SendCutSend (WAY cheaper than FPE for stuff like that). Front and rear panels are from Front Panel Express.
I designed the internal plate that everything mounts to and the ring that sandwiches the Hammond enclosure panel between it and the front panel in Autocad and had it made by SendCutSend (WAY cheaper than FPE for stuff like that). Front and rear panels are from Front Panel Express.
