ARTDualZDirect 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.

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.

Well-built, small and sturdy. However, after a few usages, it started giving me audio problems. Frankly, it has too many needless buttons and I think they started malfunctioning, because my sound would suddenly change during live gigs. The change was most noticeable in my ear monitors, and I ended up giving the unit away because I didn't want to deal with it. D.I. Boxes don't really need to have "DB" buttons or "Invert" settings unless you're using it with a pad or a laptop, but even then, it's really unnecessary. Bottom Line: If you're a gigging musician who just needs an interface between your instrument and the mixer, I would steer clear of this D.I. box and get something simpler without all the bells and whistles. Personally, I will not buy this product again.

I bought the ART DUALZDirect in hopes of taming my Hammond organ's 6-pin to TS output (WAY too hot). The unit did the job extremely well, without having to engage attenuation at all. Very clean. Also tried the unit after guitar effect unit into amp, and the ground life disposed of the demon hum instantly. When using two microphones to mic an amp, the phase switch worked like a charm. This unit is a must live, or recording. A lot of bang for the buck.

after using this item now, for a few months ..its inputs 1& 2 are to close together to use wireless inputs..and on stage the labels are hard to read

Avevo bisogno di realizzare un video con audio proveniente da un microfono a condensatore da studio collegato ad un compressore. Quindi l'ho comprato per mandare l'uscita del mixer dentro al jack dell'ingresso microfonico di una fotocamera Canon tramite il cavetto di riduzione. Dalle prime prove sembra tutto perfetto. I tasti di attenuazione sono molto comodi per poter lasciare il mixer con la regolazione che tengo di solito senza doverlo abbassare troppo. Comunque anche senza attenuazione l'uscita del mixer è gestibilissima senza distorsioni o saturazioni di sorta.

Fuera ruidos. La mejor opción para quitar ruidos raros a partir de los 30KHz y aislarse de la toma de tierra. Ideal para convertir una señal no balanceada de alta impedancia, a una señal balanceada de baja impedancia para tiradas de más metros de cable y con conector XLR. Si eres Dj, músico o cualquier otro caso donde conectas un pc, proyector... a un equipo de audio, te lo recomiendo totalmente. Además, es una DI pasiva, no necesita alimentación.

Impressive build quality and features, allows me to either split one electric guitar signal in two and route both into a mixer for recording, or live put an acoustic and an electric guitar amp's emulated out into a PA. I'd recommend if you are thinking of buying a DI box to watch one of the many helpful videos on youtube first, just to see how useful these bits of kit are. Of all the product options on offer this came out on top. Compared to my mate's Behringer DI this is much better and does a few things more.

This device never worked for me (DOA). Unfortunately, I couldn't test it right after receiving it, so all my options to return or get support expired.