Radial Pro DI Passive Direct Box

I use it with my Classicals, Steel Strings acoustics, my Hollowbody Ibanez and Fender Stratocaster guitars and it improved their sound. A metal enclosure will provide resistance to the abuse and sometime neglect that it endures when on the road. I love it and highly recommend it.

Sturdy, works great. Owned one of these previously and line-lift button finally would not work, BUT, I got 10+ years out of it.

On the advice of experienced studio musicians, I bought a DI box for recording guitar and bass. (Not this one). I was tired of overplaying and still getting anemic, lifeless guitar sounds on playback. My first DI box alleviated the problem but I still couldn't get the full-blooded sound of a well amped guitar. My guitar sounds still lacked the midrange definition I was looking for, so it was back to the marketplace. All the reviews mentioned the Radial DI so I tried it. I don't know how one transformer can be so different from another (a DI box is basically a transformer) but it is! Now I can just play without having to think about compensating for signal loss. Works well for bass, too. Much more body and less string slap. It's expensive for what it is but it works.

As a professional musician who's day job is an audio engineer, I use these constantly. I would not buy a different brand, they're worth the money. Silent, reliable, and bulletproof makes this the industry standard. I use this one for my own music, to run my keyboard to house backlines/PA systems. It's always going to ensure a good clean signal with no hum.

As the leader of the sound team in my congregation, I found myself regularly fetching replacement direct boxes for the Berhringer and other brand boxes on stage, due to noise or him, insufficient gain or just a dead box. What I noticed over time is that I never had to replace any of the Radial boxes, and in fact the musicians would sometimes ask me specifically for one. So I started stocking up on them and eventually replaced all of the other boxes with Radials. Now I simply don't worry about the boxes at all--they just work and they work well.These boxes are compact and simple, they sound great with no audible noise, and they're solid as a rock. The Pro D2 stereo boxes are just as reliable, and I've purchased a few of those to cover our keyboardists and drum sets with success.We have a couple powered Pro48 boxes that work well, but at some point I hope to have passive direct boxes exclusively, and leave the phantom power for our condenser microphones. These passive boxes are perhaps the most reliable component in all our sound equipment and I highly recommend to all musicians and venues, big or small.

I use these direct boxes on any shows where i have a sound tech.

I purchased this a few weeks ago. I use it mainly for live concerts, and I tell you what, it has made such a positive impact on the sound of my Bajoquinto. For those of you who don't know, a Bajoquinto is basically a 10 string guitar, commonly used in traditional style Norteno Bands. That said, I highly recommend this product. - Jose Magana

I use this Direct Box in my recording studio for base guitar, primarily. It's been great.