I am not sure if it is necessary to have both but I have an active DI and am considering buying a Boss acoustic preamp pedal. The pedal has a notch filter on it which seems like it would be helpful, and can be used to mute the pickup. I've messed around a little with my passive pickup and the DI and it sounds OK but has room for improvement. Would the preamp help and if so, most importantly should I be using a passive DI now that I will have a preamp too? Makes sense to me that the preamp goes before the DI but now that I will be raising the line level will I need the lower level DI? Read the article about DIs in the archive but didn't quite understand. Does the DI defeat the purpose of the preamp since one raises the signal and then the other lowers it? The pedal does have a balanced line out so I think I could just use a 1/4" to XLR cable and not use the DI at all.
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