We’ve got a “Big Shot” in the studio.
No, we don’t mean a famous person.
Last week, we bought a Radial “Big Shot” ABY box.
What’s an ABY box? Its a simple splitter that allows you to send a signal to two simultaneous locations at once (we wanted to track two amps with the same musician to combine the multiple tones). But, we’ve found that the Big Shot to be much more useful than just signal splitting.
The Radial has a phase shift button. There’s also a ground lift. And a true bypass tuner insert. Bottom line, this little thing is really cool.
A few weeks ago, we were noticing an intermittent “buzz” with certain single coil guitars. Unfortunately, this can be an all too common occurrence for studios in metropolitan areas- a combination of dirty power, RF interference, and other factors can introduce a noise into instrument signals.
However, with the isolated transformer in the Big Shot, just by running our signals through this single pedal, all of our guitars and basses were silent.
In the studio world, its easy to salivate over gorgeous vintage mic pres, consoles, or compressors. They can be useful tools.
Truth be told though, it is often the overlooked $80 utility piece which saves the session day-in and day-out.
Here’s to the little guys. Thanks Radial.
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