I am sitting at home on half term and doing some recording and sorting out. I have 3 DI boxes and two preamps sitting in front of me. I am NOT going to get into the ins and outs of which is which because I am not into dissing anyone's kit. However the price differential is frankly ENORMOUS here. I mean REALLY MASSSIVE!!!!! Is the sound different? For me, on one of them yes. For the rest they are really much of a muchness. The bass is a Korean MTD with an Armstrong pickup in it. It has very dead strings on it and the tone is rolled halfway off. The gain on the interface has been adjusted so that the recording level is there or thereabouts.