Acoustic soundhole magnetic passive pickup to passive DI box?

[omar___sherif]

I have a Taylor GS mini with a seymour duncan woody soundhole pickup (magnetic and passive), the venue i'm playing in only has passive DI boxes, I know the general rule is passive pickup to active DI and active pickup to passive DI so :
1- is it ok to plug a passive magnetic pickup into a passive DI box into the PA? or will the output be very low?
2- If i ran into an always on clean boost (Tc Spark booster 4 knobs) before the DI box would it make my signal act as if i had an active pickup? The spark has 1M ohms input impedance and 100 ohm output impedance.
To simplify here is the final signal chain i'm asking about.
Seymour duncan woody---> Spark booster (always on acting as buffer to increase output from pickup) -----> Passive DI box--->PA
So the spark will increase the output and change impedance, and passive DI box will balance the signal before the PA.
I just want to make sure that would work because i will only have a few minutes for soundcheck.
Thank you

 

[jeremy]

Re: Acoustic soundhole magnetic passive pickup to passive DI box?

ive used a clean boost to get the level up on an acoustic pup before and it works fine. if you are short on time that might be your best bet but if the sound guy/system is ok then you should be fine plugging your passive pup into the passive di box. i do that all the time and as long as there is enough gain range on the board you have no issues.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Acoustic soundhole magnetic passive pickup to passive DI box?

I've used the Woody into a preamp in the mixer...it has enough gain to make the boost pedal not needed.

 

[Aceman]

Re: Acoustic soundhole magnetic passive pickup to passive DI box?

It will probably be fine - but have a clean boost on hand just in case

 

[Paully]

Re: Acoustic soundhole magnetic passive pickup to passive DI box?

I play a Yamaha FG700S with a
Dean Markley Pro Mag +.
It's a passive p'up. When I play
most open mic nights I use
this right into the house board.
Works like a charm and sounds great.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/de...BdhGd1oXghLbE8a0Gq98SbSYyFvSABpxOqhoCXSnw_wcB