Active Di Box

These days there are excellent passive and active di boxes.

Active di box.

Di boxes which require a power source batteries or phantom power are called active di boxes. This means that it can handle lower level signals and still sound good. The pz di is a high performance specialized active direct box designed to accommodate acoustic and orchestral instruments with a selectable input impedance that can accommodate magnetic pickups or piezo transducers and a variable low cut filter. And active dis can be designed to be extremely quiet hi fi and transparent tonally.

Be direct plug into the di100 s balanced 1 4 trs or xlr input then send a signal to your console via the balanced xlr output. Active di boxes active direct boxes are in fact preamplifiers whose primary function is to provide higher input impedance than that of a transformer to drive instruments with low level signals. A di unit direct input is an electronic device typically used in recording studios and in sound reinforcement systems to connect a high output impedance line level unbalanced output signal to a low impedance microphone level balanced input usually via an xlr connector and xlr cable.