Role of the direct box in recording active n passive direct injection guitar bass plug in lesson 5

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In this fifth video of the ongong series video called "Plug In Shorts" we discuss the role of the direct box for recording options and effects use when recording with Grammy award winning producer/engineer Ben Elliot.

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[popomczowzow]

These videos are pretty good but I feel like they could be more helpful

[500passwords]

thanks for sharing the knowledge

[SantaKalauz]

can i get same sound quality when i plug my guitar through DI box(direct box ofc) + guitar rig software like getttin guitar through line 6 pod ux 1 or similar device?

[lookin2jam23]

I've used my acoustic electric to go straight through the mix board. Would having a DI really make that much of a difference? I do this live and it works just fine if you know how to set your levels on the board (which I do). For my electric, I use a POD XT, so and route the outputs to ( L to my amp and R to my mixer.) I dont ping pong or use panning live anyway for my guitar so what do you guys suggest?

[samathanwataguan]

@binkiie4dictator I dunno maybe you've found the solution now lol but I got an audio interface (Alesis IO2) for £45 (second hand). Go round a second hand electronics store they might have something. There's loads of stuff from M-Audio etc.

[matthehat]

This video doesn't explain anything about impedance matching or balancing the signal - the real reason that DI boxes are incredibly important.

[binkiie4dictator]

I just bought a condenser microphone for some home studio work. I didn't realize when I bought it that it needed phantom power (48v). I am on a really tight budget and was told a good source of phantom power would be a DI Box. The microphone would be going through this and Into my dmx6 fire sound card in my computer. Does a DI box provide phantom power?

[JoeBradshaw123456]

@rawrfosho - You want to have your guitar connect to what ever pedals you are using first, then bring it through your DI and out to the pedals.

From pedals to High Z In

High Z Out to Amp

Low Z out to MTR

[dlc54]

The Direct Box was invented by Ed Wolfrum in Detroit around 1961, he later woked as an audio engineer at Motown.

[rawrfosho]

i have a rapco db 100 direct box, its has a hi z in a hiz out, grnd lift in and a low z output(this is like a mic pluc)

how would i use this set up when im using my guitar amp and pedals???

thanks

[screamodrummer1234]

@rabbidhedgehog depending on the strenght of your pickups, youre going to get a very crappy tone. its a nice application (with a di of course) for clean stuff but if you plug a guitar straight into a mixer, you cant turn it up loud enough to blend with the band or orther instruments without distorting the sound

[chyrd]

@rabbidhedgehog not into the Mic Input. You also shouldn't plug it into the line level input either, as you will wind up distorting your signal by having to boost the pre amp to much.