Radial Engineering JDI 5-stars Reviews

Super solid DI box.

The JDI is the perfect Passive DI box for everyone who wants an excellent product for professional use. I have also the Stage Bug from Radial which is a very very good product for its price, but the JDI is the best one with reach sound solid body, and plus functions.

Great passive DI

Very sturdy case and great sound quality. I love passive DI's because they don't require additional phantom power. This one is my favorite!

Great passive DI

Very flat and natural sounding, quality stuff! Specially for active basses. Maybe less interesting for passive basses with low output.

Very good!

I used it for a Roland fa08 keyboard as well as for a Moog SubPhatty in both live gig and studio recording and I must say it's flawless. Easy to use, just plug the cables in/out of the little green box and expect top sound quality. Good build, hard metal case, nice feel on the buttons. I own the bigger brother of this box too, the stereo one. Recommend it for any of you looking for a top quality DI.

Excellent

I took this one to try it with acoustic guitars with piezo pickups in order to compare it with active DI-Boxes and the result is very nice, well balanced, slightly warmer sound. Active or passive Radial DI-Box with acoustic guitars is a matter of taste at the end but this one worked very well, especially with nylon string guitar. It is pricey but I don't regret it.

Highest quality DI box

Used with a fretless bass, this DI box combines flawless sound with excellent functionality. You can read the spec., yourselves, but I highlight the ability to have a feed to an onstage amp / monitor as well as the DI (Mic level) output to the desk - useful for smaller setups where you just need foldback of your own instrument and have no need for a desk mix for your monitor. Great build quality. Great sound. Very acceptable to the sound engineers ...

Solid and awesome

I didn't know I needed this until I bought it. Now I'm runnign through it on almost all my tracks. Radial is a solid company from Canada making some of the most useful gear out there. This JDI is a classic. It's passive, so no power needed, it's built to last years, the sound it produces is warm and smooth, and the features on it are super useful. I just ran it from the output of my pedal board to the guitar amp and it sounds better with it in the chain then without. Also great for recording. Just tried a drum machine through it directly into DAW. Sounds great. I like this DI.

Superb Passive DI

I use the Radial JDI for recording bass and as DI on gigs.

Most of my basses are active some with a very high output which matches well with a passive DI. I have used other DI's from pedal board preamps and bass amps before but the Radial is definitely a step up and sounds less compressed. The signal has a very good dynamic range, not much colouring going on, a very low noise floor, it needs no powering and the Radial built like a tank.

best passive di

best passive di on the market in my opinion

This is the first DI box I've been using.

I use 81/85 EMG's on guitar and also an active pickup on bass. The last one has an extremely high output, that no audio interface could handle (from those which I've been using: Avid FastTrack C400 and Focusrite Forte). The JDI handles both in excellent way. There is no any overload or distortion, just saturating when signal comes to it's highest levels. It all sound in a very musical way comparing to direct instrument input on audio interfaces.

I also tried the JDI before Axe FX II input and the bass sounded significantly better this way while the guitar sounded better without it.

The build quality seems to be very good.

'Ground' button is a very useful feature. It helps to cut off the noise while using tube amplifier and other devices like audio interface simultaneously.

I had not opportunity to compere the JDI with other DI boxes but nevertheless I'm very happy with it.

Best passive direct box that I've tried

This is a very solid build of the direct box. Sounds transparent and has some nice additional features like mono sum, ground lift, etc. All the other direct boxes I have tried were disappointing because they did not sound well but now I am very happy with JDI and would highly recommend it.

THE perfect DI

Passive DI from radial .

in my opinion that's the best sounding passive DI I've heard and seen

Very basic features like pad, ground lift ....

The case is very solid and road proof

Excellent DI

An excellent DI that works perfectly well with guitars, bass guitars, keys, drum machines...extremely recommended!

Radial DI

This Radial passive DI is very transparent and it is wonderfull on bass guitars.

The Quality is absolutly perfect and it is very well build and finnished.

It as groundloop switch that it works flawlessly

It can work directly to an guitar or bass cabinet.

Well worth the money!

I wouldn't be without this incredibly useful little box. Built like a tank, very transparent sound when used as intended. There is nothing to dislike. If I lost it, I'd replace it in a flash.

It also works well as a conventional DI placed before the amplifier, However, I normally use this in a slightly strange way. I plug the line output of my preamp into the guitar input which drives the tranformer much harder than my weedy passive pickups alone manage. This gets a great recorded sound with a little added "something"

The other feature it has is a *merge* function. This allows the input and the bypass sockets to both be used as inputs. I think it's meant for keyboards and things, however we use it slightly differently. My band shares a rehearsal room with another band. Sometimes we have a jam session with all the musicians who use the room. We plug both bass amps into the DI using the merge function and send the output to one of the inputs on the recording interface. That way whoever is playing the bass gets recorded on the same channel. That way we can both play our own rigs as we please, and both appear on the recording without having to swap cables about.

Incredibly useful, if you don't have one yet, buy one!

True bass tone

I think everything is been said about Radial JDI. I'm just very happy to have it, beacuse it's reliable, tone is as it should be...and in my opinion it is a bit thicker and transparent.

My signal chain is G&L L2K (p mode) -> Palmer Ubertreiber -> MXR M 81 -> Radial JDI -> PA nad I always get compliments about tone of the bass and how it sits in the mix from soundmen and audience.

Radial JDI - direct injection of quality

Sturdy, well designed and does nothing to degrade the sound. In fact it sounds subtly better due to the Jenson transformer. Quality product from Radial!