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Dear valued Little Labs customer, 

 

Congratulations on your purchase of the Redeye 3D Phantom. 

This box is s the new improved major revision of the popular 

Little Labs Redeye direct box / re-amp box. More people are 

re-amping now than ever before, and we at Little Labs know 

re-amping! We made this new major Redeye revision because we 

wanted to make sure we continued to make the best sounding, 

most flexible, easiest to use, and reasonably priced re-amping 

and direct box product available.
For easy accurate re-amping the Redeye 3D lets you listen thru 

your whole recording chain, from Redeye 3D direct box, to mic 

pre to DAW (or tape machine), to Redeye 3D Re-amp, to your 

guitar amp. In DI (direct box) mode the instrument / re-amp out 

on the front of the Redeye 3D works as a thru signal so you can 

simultaneously feed your guitar amp while supplying a signal 

from the rear xlr to your mic pre and DAW or tape machine. In 

re-amp mode the instrument / re-amp out on the front of the 

Redeye 3D signal comes from the line level output of the DAW 

or tape machine (converted to HI z guitar level signal) to feed 

your guitar amp. This simple way of listening thru the chain (re-

amp mode) and being able to bypass the mic pre and DAW or 

tape machine in the chain (DI mode) makes level adjustments a 

snap. This also assures you a re-amped guitar sound that will 

be exactly what was heard when laying down the track.
The Redeye 3D phantom - the now even smarter flexible 

audio tool to aid you in all stages of your production.  

This manual is preliminary, meaning it will be full of typos and 

grammatical errors,  but it should get you started.
Yours truly,
Jonathan Little

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Summary of Contents for Redeye 3D Phantom

Page 1: ...OLLYWOOD CA 90068 E MAIL littlelabs littlelabs com WEB www littlelabs com SALES SERVICE TECHNICAL SUPPORT FAX 323 851 6860 Manual printing pdf formatting 01 2011 THE REDEYE 3D PHANTOM P R E L I M I N A R Y O p e r a t o r s M a n u a l ...

Page 2: ...m is could be protools a tape machine a DAW with a funny name or and put this machine in input so you monitor thru the machine 5 With the gain settings set low on the microphone preamplifier push the re amp button in on the Redeye 3D Slowly bring your gain up on the Microphone pre amplifier so the sound level coming from your amp sounds the same as when the Redeye 3D was in DI mode button out you ...

Page 3: ... z guitar level signal to feed your guitar amp This simple way of listening thru the chain re amp mode and being able to bypass the mic pre and DAW or tape machine in the chain DI mode makes level adjustments a snap This also assures you a re amped guitar sound that will be exactly what was heard when laying down the track The Redeye 3D phantom the now even smarter flexible audio tool to aid you i...

Page 4: ... then plug the pedals output into Redeye3Ds instrument in you can use the buffered or unbuffered in it will most likely make little difference Feed the mic level out into a microphone preamplifier and you have a 4dB balanced line level in and out effect BUT NOTE Keep the di re amp button engaged or you get a loop and a nasty squeal will result Many times you can come right out of the pedal and int...

Page 5: ...s is the input of the re amp section of the Redeye 3D Phantom what needs to be fed in here is a line level 4dB lo impedance balanced signal from the output of a DAW a tape machine or send off a console The input impedance on this input is approximately 9k ohm or 4k ohm if the re amp overdrive is selected I should note some other re amping devices have a 600 ohm input impedance which can be tough t...

Page 6: ... the recording aparatus at a healthy level your particular instrument has a very high output and you need it to hit the amp harder Metal heads will like this redeye 3D phantom earth lift re amp polarity The earth lift button should be engaged when you have ev erything hooked up and you hear a hum in your amp or what you are recording The hum is caused by a ground loop where more than one path to g...

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