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Paulo P.
Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2024
Las dos que compré, por más buen uso que leDi, fallaron ambas
Craig
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2019
Background: I'm a semi-pro bass player and singer. I play to hundreds of people every weekend. Used to do it for a living exclusively. I'm also an I.T. consultant and tube amp audio designer.This direct box is a quality DI that has decent sound. After testing it for a while at home, though, and in several different configurations, I sensed something was missing. So I hooked up my ProDI, and then my JDI, to compare all three. The ProDI and JDI were nearly indistinguishable, as has always been the case. They're also in another league compared to the SB-2. They have a smoothness, coherence, quickness, and clarity from top to bottom that the SB-2 simply does not have. The SB-2 seems to throw a veil over things, making the bottom end sound a bit slow, sludgy, thuddy, and indistinct. It's not all that obvious, though; you have to "go looking for it," as they say. The top end is there, but again, it's not at the quality level provided by the unit's two bigger, more-expensive brothers.Does that mean I dislike the SB-2? Absolutely not. If size and price (and perhaps weight) are prime purchase factors, then clearly the SB-2 is the way to go. It'll give you better sound than, say, an IMP-2. Theoretically, I could do a fly-in gig with just my bass guitar case containing my bass, my strap, my instrument cable, my tuner, and my SB-2 inside it. One thing to carry. That's a big plus.And, as others have already stated, once the music starts and things get loud, especially in the average highly-reflective venue where the acoustics are somewhere between terrible and awful, and especially when people are singing along, no one's going to hear the difference between an SB-2 and a ProDI, or an SB-2 and a JDI.
Bill Nutter
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2017
Great sounding passive DI
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