Anyone use their DR-2d with a Naiant preamp? I'm thinking of having Jon build me a Tinybox 2.0 with pads to compensate for the hot inputs of the DR-2d.
I've used my a few times with my Littlebox, and just ran it a couple nights ago with a borrowed tinybox v1.
It's worked fine -- nice combo. I've run external attenuator cables (pads) from the LB to the DR2d, and have run without, just with lower gain. I ran with the attenuators so I could boost up the gain of the LB more to get more saturation out of the output transformers, but the combo works fine without pads if you just keep the gain lower on the LB.
Similar with the TB. I ran the borrowed TB at medium gain (18db??) for Radiohead and got peaks of about -2dbFS on the DR2d with no distortion. They weren't super loud, but you could always run the TB at low gain.
Talk about it with Jon, but I wouldn't think you'd need pads on the TB. Just get custom gain settings that are lower than the standard -- maybe 6db - 12db - 24db