Radial Pro DI

Radial Pro DI hire in Melbourne. A passive direct box with a Radial transformer inside, for getting a bass, keys or laptop into the mixer clean and hum free.

DI box hire is the boring bit of a PA job that saves your gig. Plug an instrument or a laptop into a long unbalanced lead and you get hum, buzz and hear every lighting dimmer in the room. A Pro DI fixes it. Its custom Radial transformer turns the high impedance signal into a balanced mic level line and breaks the ground loop that causes the buzz, with no batteries or phantom power needed. It's flat from 20Hz to 18.5kHz with very low phase distortion, so the bass sounds like the bass and it handles very hot signals without distorting, which matters when the keyboard player turns everything up to ten.

We use Radial DIs on every band and corporate job and they're in the case with our Band PA package.

Good for: bass guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, laptops and playback, DJ feeds into a house PA, and any long cable run where hum and buzz are a risk.

Good to know: Passive and mono. For stereo keys or a laptop feed, book two or the Radial Stereo JDI. For a low output passive pickup on an acoustic guitar, the active Radial J48 is the better call. Ask us if you're not sure which one you need.