ART DualZDirect Dual Professional Passive Direct Box

Built very well. I like the rubber armor on what could be sharp edges. This box will not slip and slide on a stage.There is a very small amount of crosstalk between channels (order of -100dB?). You won't hear it but at the really high preamp gain levels needed for guitars with passive pickups, you might see it on your level meters. Absolutely not an issue for live sound (our use). For studio recording I would use single channel interfaces, possibly with dedicated preamps.There are a lot of buttons to select pad levels, ground lift, etc. We don't use any of them because we go from this box into a mixer with highly configurable preamp gain. So I can't comment on how well these bonus features work.

I love this DI box. I play both bass and acoustic guitar - I plug both guitars into this (end of pedal chain, with the shortest possible 1/4" cables) and then run XLR cables to the mixer. Sounds like a clean signal to me - much better than long 1/4" cables. The unit is nice and small - fits into a side pouch on a backpack. No power required - plug and play. Bass players seem to always get pushed into a corner or way off to the side so this gives me a chance to have a clean signal to the PA.

I probably purchased the wrong DI Box. This box is well designed, well made and works fine, BUT... I didn't realize that it would reduce the signal LEVEL so much !!!! From reading the description, I though we could use this to take an unbalanced ~ 2 Volt Line-Level Signal and convert it to 600 ohm balanced OUT, to send to a powered speaker that is far from the mixing board. We did this, but there was not enough Signal to drive the powered speaker. I call A.R.T. and asked a Tech about the [Turns Ratio] of the transformers and he wasn't sure, but if it is anything like the Zin-Zout Ratio (50,000 Ohm to 600 Ohm, or less), it will reduce the Voltage OUT by something like 83 times, so 1 Volt IN gives 12 mV OUT (which for us isn't useful). It would take 40 Volts IN to get 0.5 V OUT. To his credit, the Tech suggested that for our application, what we wanted a different DI box, which ART also makes. It turns out that they make a great many different versions, for all sorts of applications, so I recommend either a visit to the ART Website (or a call to Tech Support), to be certain that the DI Box you pick can do what you want. - Donald Coley -

Economical, sounds good, nice size. I'm using it for a stereo send from electronic drums, keyboards, etc., so I don't know how the cross talk would be for 2 discrete signals, but it sure makes setups neater and easier than grabbing 2 boxes and stacking them together, etc.

Great DI for running tracks and IEM. Worth the price!

So far this stereo di is working great for our piano. Beats having to run two separate direct boxes for a stereo channel.

This DI box is amazing. A clear difference in not only show quiet my signal is, but the quality has improved. I use my keyboard through this for gigs and my instrument has never sounded better. Whatever preamps and transformers are in there has my keyboard sounding night and day compared when I was gigging before just plugging my board quarter inch into piano amp.

I have tested a number of similar D.I. boxes and this one is my favorite.Firstly this direct box is incredibly small considering that it houses two channels.I was also impressed by it's frequency response which Ranges less than a dB from 10Hz-30kHzBuild quality is also excellent.Would highly recommend.