DI Suitable for Passive Guitars?

[AllanD]

My current passive DI sounds terrible, makes everything have a huge bass boost, so my VST recordings sound terrible.



Would this be suitable?

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ProDI/


Before "Search button" is mentioned, DI is too small to search, and direct box has very limited returns.

 

[2000ContourSVT]

I recommend the Countryman Type 85. It's a fantastic DI and works really well with passive guitars.

 

[AllanD]

Almost 200$, damn. Thanks, I'll keep an eye on ebay. Any other DI users (Everyone )want to pitch in on their DI and how it works with passives?

 

[exoslime]

+1 on the countryman 85
i got a used, but in great condition countryman of about 110 USD of ebay, just keep looking!!

works great with passives hb, single coils, and with actives too..

 

[::XeS::]

Any active DI box. Radial DI boxes for example. With passive pickups you can have problems if you use a passive DI box like the RedEye (anyway I used my RedEye to record and reamp seymour duncan and emg in the same session, L and R, and there were no differences)

 

[Raptor7]

or you might consider this http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/AR133/
very good and reliable, same as countryman 85

 

[AllanD]

Any active DI box. Radial DI boxes for example. With passive pickups you can have problems if you use a passive DI box like the RedEye (anyway I used my RedEye to record and reamp seymour duncan and emg in the same session, L and R, and there were no differences)

So is the one I posted more than suitable?

 

[Wolfeman]

Am I the only one that doesn't have issues running passives through a passive DI box? My Redeye handles passives fine.

 

[Metaltastic]

Yeah, it's not a matter of having "issues", really, except for perhaps not quite as clear and dynamic a signal by a margin small enough that it would only be noticed when directly A/B'ed with the same guitar recorded through an Active DI (as I showed using the Dimebucker in my shootout some time ago). Still, those differences do manifest themselves in the re-amped tones, but it's not like re-amped DI's that were recorded with the Redeye will by any means sound "worse", just "not quite as awesome" (in other words, if you can't get a good tone with passive pups and a Redeye for both your DI/Re-amp duties, the Redeye isn't the problem )

 

[Metaltastic]

And that above shootout also confirms that Countryman > All (and also, that I liked the J48 the least)

 

[AllanD]

My problem more than probably has to do with my 30$ DI. I want the active just in case.