Radial J48

Radial J48 hire in Melbourne. An active DI box that takes the hottest bass, keys or acoustic pickup and gets it into the mixer clean, with headroom to spare.

Active DI box hire is the fix for low output pickups and instruments that need a little help. The J48 runs off phantom power from the mixer, so there are no batteries to die mid set. Radial built it with a switching power supply that lifts the internal voltage, so it handles the big transients from an active bass or a keyboard without distorting, where cheaper active DIs crunch. It's flat from 20Hz to 40kHz, so the instrument sounds like itself, and a ground lift takes care of hum when the stage power gets messy.

We use it on acoustic guitars with piezo pickups, active basses and keys, and alongside the passive Radial Pro DI on band and corporate jobs. The steel case takes a stage boot without complaint.

Good for: acoustic guitars with piezo pickups, active and passive bass, keyboards, laptops and playback, and any long cable run into a mixer.

Good to know: It needs 48V phantom power from the mixer. Not sure if your source needs the active J48 or the passive Pro DI? Ask us and we'll tell you.