BehringerDI400P Ultra-DI Passive DI Box

I’m a gigging keyboard player and have this in my rig after my keyboard sub mixer, so I can just output a stereo XLR pair to the stage box / main mixer inputs. Power is via a standard mains kettle lead (supplied with it) which is always better than a wall wart PSU.This is a 4 channel unit but I’m only using 2 as a stereo pair. It offers the usual DI features you would expect to find, including jack and XLR inputs, and individual channel switches for ground lift, 20db boost, phase reverse, and an 8kHz cut in case you need it. Inputs are on the rear of the rack, output is on the front of the rack via balanced XLR so no need to dig around the back of the rack in the dark on stage! Perhaps most importantly for a DI box, the sound output is clean and quiet. 🤫I prefer this to the external foot pedal sized DI box type as this stays fully wired in my rack, meaning a little less set up time and reduced cable trailing on the stage - all I need to do is to plug the main mixer input XLR cables into the XLR outputs on the front of the unit. 👍

The media could not be loaded. Great price and does what it's meant to!Attached a short clip so you can hear the sound quality using it live.FYI it's a budget hartwood semi acoustic hallow body I'm using with strymon big sky reverb, strymon timeline and a ruby Amp model,It's compact and great for carrying incase your venues don't have themClarity, well you tell me?Was compatible with my rig and the venues rig.Useful if you're gigging and touring a lot like me as I've came across some venues not having a DI and glad I had this

Battery powered and handy to carry in the guitar case if like me you often play at open mic events where you might need to plug into various amplifiers or PA desks. It doesn’t add any noticeable noise makes it easier for the signal to be adjusted. Is it the best DI box on the market? No but in a pinch it does the job and doesn’t negatively affect the sound in any bad way. Obviously you need to be aware of the battery and turn it off when not in use but I’ve never had any problems with it.

What can I say. It does exactly what its supposed to do and for the money its a no-brainer!

DI boxes (I think it stands for Direct Inject, but I've also heard them called Direct Input) allow an unbalanced signal or any impedence that may be coming from an instrument, a microphone or another audio source, to be converted to a balanced microphone-level signal suitable for your mixing desk. This Behringer DI Box is fairly large (perhaps 6 inches square and three inches deep) in a rugged steelcase with outsized rubber bumpers. Its design gives you confidence that it will just work, and indeed it does, taking its power from the mixing desk (you can add a PP9 9 Volt battery if you wish, but it shouldn't be needed).The inputs are quarter inch jack or XLR (note that these are unbalanced, so only one signal pin is connected - if you have a balanced audio source, like most microphones, you don't need a DI Box). There's a pass through quarter inch jack, so you can also plug into a monitor amp or something similar. There are also two attenuator buttons, that drop the signal level by -20 dB or -40dB. On the back there's the balanced XLR output and a "ground lift" button, which can eliminate buzz and hum if you have two grounding points in circuit. There's also the door to the battery compartment, a red LED to show you the device is receiving phantom power from the mixing desk, and another unlabelled button that the instruction leaflet claims to be a speaker cabinet simulator. It is nothing of the sort - the leaflet is wrong. It's the on-off power button for the internal battery. I haven't tried using that one. If you want cabinet effects, try the Behringer Ultra-G instead.The idea is that you have the DI Box (or boxes - I use two) on stage or in the performance area, and the balanced XLR cable back to the mixing desk can be as long as you like, within reason, as having a positive and negative signal means that any induced interference cancels out, giving a nice clean signal at the desk. The boxes stack nicely - they don't clip together, but they rest on top of each other quite comfortably.The Behringer DI Boxes (this one and the Ultra-G) are way more stylish than most of the alternatives. Behringer also does a 2-channel stereo box, the DI20, but I like the look and feel of this one so much more, and I want the flexibility to place them separately, so I prefer to have two DI 100s.I'd hesitate to use this DI Bix if you don't have phantom power - what if the battery runs out mid-performance? Other than that, they're a great choice.

Does Behringer make the best quality audio products around? No. But are they inexpensive and reliable? Yes.I keep this one in my keyboard case, along with a couple of jack leads, so I can always plug into a sound system if I arrive at a new venue that doesn't have enough of its own kit.I've also used the link function to send an output to the sound desk for FOH while also feeding a small powered foldback speaker for myself.You'll notice that all the connections are on the top, rather than front and back of the unit as with most other DI boxes. I quite like this - because it makes it easy to plug everything in on a crowded stage - but you might not.

Classic compact DI box. Does exactly what it’s supposed to. Great little item for the money.Happy with it.

Bought this as I needed a DI for the studio, for Bass Guitar, When it arrived I was impressed by the build quality and it looked to be a good unit for the price, unfortunately there is so much hiss and crackles that it is unusable for studio recording, what a pity, maybe I have a faulty unit, I even tried my 20 year old DI box with same cable and setting, no hiss, so the fault is with this unit. Returned for refund. Basically if it worked as it should, it would have been great, as it doesn't, it's of no use to me. Pity as I have other Behringer products which have worked fantastically. Putting this down to a dud that missed QC, though won't get another one, just incase the product is actually a poor product line.