DI-E : Excellent cheap DI box

These are great to carry around as problem solvers and for bulking out DI stock.

On active sources (keyboards, mixers, instruments with active pick-ups) they work great. I wouldn't recommend using them on a passive source (instruments with passive pick-ups) because the resulting output will be very low and won't wound good.

This isn't to say it doesn't work. For example, I was engineering a gig recently and the mixer's phantom power supply wasn't working and we had no 9v batteries left! The bass amp's DI output was noisy so we tried one of these DI's as a last resort. The bass guitar had passive pick ups meaning a lot of treble was lost from the sound but it suited the music and the set of the mix was adjusted to work around it. It saved the gig!

My only concern is the output XLR connector doesn't fit some XLR leads perfectly. Also the retaining clip is quite weak and has broken on a couple of these DI's that I've used. Nothing tape can't fix though!

Again, these are great. You can't say no for the price.