DI20 : Noisy, but handy in live situations

We first got one of these to help route some things in our rehearsal space (mostly to split the kick drum signal to the main mixer and to our drummers in-ear monitors). It was very useful as a splitter in a rehearsal situations.

Next we tried to get the DI signal of the guitar to do some reamping later and found it to be very noisy. It added a lot of noise to the whole DI track and made it completely unusable as a DI ( in the end we ended up using a Behringer mixer for the DI signal).

What made us decide to purchase several more? When in a live situation where you don't 100% know what in house gear you end up using these can give you a lot of flexibility. If you are just starting out and are not sure what you are going to need then bringing a few of these DI boxes with you can help you in unseen situations.