DI Recommendations

[Old Horse Murphy]

Can anyone recommend a (reasonably priced) rackable DI at all?

Thanks

[Dood]

Specifically a rack unit, or just one small enough to fit into a rack? You also have the choice of active or passive, depending on where in your signal chain you are putting the DI. Passive *usually* being the cheaper but less flexible solution.

[Old Horse Murphy]

Probably a Passive one and preferably a rack unit. I boviously need to do a bit more research in to this!!

[Dood]

I see Thomann do a rackable DI box. I use a stereo passive DI from 'Palmer'. Cheap as chips, but really good transformers inside. Rumour has it they are Jensens, but I'd need to open her up to take a look! lol.

[The Funk]

Alex gigs with his Avalon U5 into a power amp. It's not cheap though.

[G-bitch]

I'd seriously just go for an MTR DI box - no point in racking something so small. What do you need it for? Reason I ask is that every sound engineer under the sun has a box ful of regular DI boxes so unless you want a 'top quality' unit like the aforementioned Avalon then I'm struggling to see the reason for owning one - unless the XLR out on your amp has kicked the bucket!

Can you give a little more info on intended use etc?

[99ster]

[quote name='The Funk' post='40000' date='Aug 1 2007, 02:04 PM']Alex gigs with his Avalon U5 into a power amp. It's not cheap though.[/quote]


+1.
Got an Avalon U5 recently. It is absolutely fantastic. Which is why it's become the industry standard DI for many top 'name' bass players & high-end recording studios.
But - it is also a (very expensive!!!) big heavy box that needs to be cased properly if you want to gig it. The rack kit for it is a rip-off price as well (I use a £20 Alu video camera case that is a perfect fit).

[The Funk]

For £68 you could get a half-rack Samson C-Valve. Valve mic preamp with built-in AD converter. Only downside is the bleedin' wall wart. Still, you could get two of them and the rack kit for just over £150. Fairly good quality instrument input.