[momotrucker]

Originally Posted by Tim Bowen

It's a quality and solid piece of gear for reasonable bucks.

I find it more useful as meticulously dialing in toward a single instrument than I do in quickly tweaking it for a variety of stringed instruments (a bit too quirky and difficult to quickly visualize and set in this respect for live work, for my purposes). I also found it odd that, with most of my acoustic-electric instruments, "flat EQ" was basically obtained with the bass, mids, and highs controls at 10:00 or so on the clock dial of the pots. Personally, I find the EQ section to be more than generous as to boost, but a bit lacking in cut capabilities. Obviously, the amount of pre- and post- gain that has been dialed is interactive, but it is nonetheless a bit sensitive for my tastes.

I've decided that a DI with EQ capabilities that can not be bypassed via a stomp of the foot is basically useless for me. Also, be aware that the phantom power will not work with power sources that supply only 15V. It wants 48V.

As carefully dialed, it's a very good sounding preamp/DI with lots of clean headroom to spare. However, I've not found it to be the best fit for me.

what do you like? and for what purpose(s)? always interested in reviews
of d.i.'s