V-Tone Bass BDI21 : BDI 21

I bought the Behringer BDI-21 as a backup for live bass playing, and it performs really well. Obviously it's a Sansamp clone, and in a head-to-head comparison this unit has a little more background noise, but not by much.

It's a plastic case with a heavy, sheet metal baseplate, so feels weighty enough. How well it would stand up against a long tour I'm not sure, but for the money these are unbeatable units, and there's really no excuse for not having one in your gig bag.

It won't run on phantom power, unlike all of the other bass DI press (Hartke, Sansamp, EBS, MXR etc?) but what you save by buying this, as opposed to a much more expensive unit, you can spend on a decent PSU (or a tower of batteries).