Warm Audio WA-DI-P Passive Direct Box

Warm Audio WA-DI-P Passive Direct Box

The Warm Direct Box Passive is professionally designed capable for use along with electric instruments that comes with active pickups such as basses and guitars as well as line-level instruments. The design is created based around renowned electrical components such as the custom-wound CineMag transformer at its core. It comes with its rugged extruded aluminum enclosure, its rugged metal switches, and Pad knob it will capable of providing a warm tone over long cable runs as well as durability on the road.

On the front of the unit, you'll be able to find a 1/4" input and an Amp/Instrument toggle switch. This toggle switch is capable to select between line-level and instrument-level settings so you are made capable to use the box with either your high-impedance instruments (guitars and such) or line-level keyboards. A polarity switch and ground-lift switch are on hand, and you'll also note the 1/4" thru-put, which is mirroring the input and letting you to pass unaffected signal to destinations such as stage amplifiers. Now you are given with capability to feed your amp on stage and send mic-level signal to the house mixer at the same time.

On the rear, you'll see an XLR output and a variable pad knob that giving you the ability of attenuating your signal between -3 and -30 dB, which gives you another useful gain-stage. You are also capable to switch the pad out entirely along with the Engage toggle switch.

This is the passive model, which is better suited for balancing the signal of instruments that comes with active electronics such as electric guitars geared towards heavy metal and many electric basses. However, the DI box sports a frequency range of 20 Hz to 70 kHz at ±0.5 dB, so it can still handle passive instruments with a range that eclipses many other DI boxes. Passive DI boxes do not require power to operate.

Variable Pad
Attenuate your signal between -3 and -30 dB

Passive Circuitry
Direct Box Passive is best for instruments with active pickups

Convenience Jack
The Direct Box Passive offers a thru-put jack jumpered to the input jack; this lets you send your instrument's signal to a second place in addition to the live mixer or recording device

Wired for Sonic Integrity and Durability
Every aspect of the Warm Direct Box Passive is designed for sonic integrity, from custom-wound CineMag USA transformers, to metal switches and connectors, to gold-plated circuit traces