Today I'm going to compare Direct Box guitar recording
To recording guitar directly into a mixer
and directly into an audio interface
The DI Box that I'm using for this video
Is the Behringer DI 400p
Welcome to Simple Green Tech I'm Radio Zane and
On this channel i do audio tech tips, tutorials
and reviews to help you unleash your creativity
Now today I'm comparing DI Box recording
or direct box recording to recording your guitar
directly into an audio interface or directly
into a mixer. Now the DI Box or direct box
that I'm using for this video is the very affordable
Behringer Ultra DI400p
so keep that in mind as a more expensive DI box
may get you different results
I've linked to the Behringer DI400p in the description below
in case you want to check out all of the specs on it
and you can see just how affordable this thing really is
this is a passive DI box
meaning it doesn't require any power no battery or anything
you just plug your guitar in. Connect it to your
audio interface or your mixer and away you go
there are also active DI boxes out there
those require power and there are other differences
I'm not going to get into all of the differences
but one of the main differences other than the power
is that the passive DI boxes may add
a little bit of coloration to the sound
so that's something that we'll listen for here
so I've done 3 recordings here 1 with the DI boxes connected
direct into the audio interface
Another one with the guitar connected direct to the audio interface
and then another one with the guitar connected
directly to the mixer first up we'll listen
to the guitar connected straight into the audio interface
so the signal chain here is my guitar connected
straight into my Focusrite 2i2
next up we'll listen to the Di Box recording
and the signal chain here is the same guitar
plugged into the DI box and then the XLR
output of this DI box is going into
the XLR input on my Focusrite 2i2
and finally we'll listen to the guitar connected straight
into the mixer. so the signal chain here is
the guitar going straight into the Behringer mixer
and then the main output of the Behrigner mixer is
connected to the inputs of my Focusrite 2i2
So that's what it sounds like clean
now let's listen to it with a
guitar amp sim on each of them and we'll see if there's a difference
there but first, let me know if you heard a difference with the clean
recordings. So now we're going to listen to the exact same recordings
but this time I've added Amplitube Custom Shop
as an effect in the DAW and the settings
are the exact same for each of the recordings
So I'm going to let you decide for yourself if you
think a DI box is worth it for your recordings
keep in mind that this is a very affordable DI box
Maybe a more expensive one will make a bigger difference
click up here to see my guitar recording playlist
or click down here to see what YouTube recommends
if you liked this video please give it a thumbs up
Also subscribe if you'd like to see more videos from me
for Simple Green Tech thank you so much for watching
I'm Radio Zane and we'll talk soon