Active Stereo Di Box

The j48 stereo is a high performance 2 channel active direct box for live concert touring and professional recording studio applications with the ability to handle extreme transients without distortion while delivering the natural sound of your instrument.

Active stereo di box.

Sweetwater carries two types of di boxes. Active direct boxes are in fact preamplifiers whose primary function is to provide higher input impedance than that of a transformer to drive instruments with low level signals. Open quick view dialog for radial engineering j48 stereo active direct box incheckoutpromo radial engineering j48 stereo active direct box. Thanks to this circuitry active di boxes commonly require phantom power or a nine volt battery.

Your price 299 99 msrp 330 0 lowprice. Your price 59 99 msrp 99 99. Radial prod2 passive 2 channel instrument direct box passive stereo di with isolation transformer 15db pad and lift switch with senor microphone cable and instrument cable 4 3 out of 5 stars 21 149 99. Direct box passive is best for balancing the signal of instruments with active electronics but still performs extremely well on passive pickups by producing a frequency range that exceeds the bandwidth of most passive di boxes on the market.

Born out of necessity in studios such as motown and united sound systems to accommodate the electric instruments emerging in the 1960s direct boxes also known as dis which stands for direct inject began as a way to resolve a basic impedance mismatch between electrodynamic guitar pickups and sensitive studio electronics. Di boxes which require a power source batteries or phantom power are called active di boxes. To put it simply active boxes require a power supply. Although many modern dis are far more.

Open quick view dialog for livewire adi active di direct box incheckoutpromo livewire adi active di direct box. For example if you were using a passive di to send an old fender bass to the console its single coil pickup had to drive amp transformer mic splitter transformer. A passive direct box uses a transformer to convert the signal whereas an active direct box has a preamp built into the circuitry.