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Passive or Active DI Box

  • 22-02-2016 12:33pm
    #1
    Mad Bull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭


    Hi, I just wondered do I need a passive or active DI box when playing a semi acoustic through it? The acoustic has a battery , so I am guessing active, but not too sure.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Whosthis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Whosthis


    By rule of thumb it should be an active as far as I remember. Having said that there's also specific acoustic DIs available.


  • #3
    godfrey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 417 ✭✭godfrey


    When an instrument has a pre-amp, such as yours (you can tell because that's what the battery powers), it makes no difference being active or passive per se, but for example, any cheap passive DI will be 100 times better than a cheap active one, especially those awful Behringer things. They are noisy, introduce phase anomalies and distortion.

    Hope this helps ~

    g


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