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How much should you spend on a DI box? Behringer DI20 and Torpedo Reload Tested
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Inspired by Glenn Fricker's comment, a quick experiment to see what difference a DI box makes in the signal chain
Appreciated for your work, I have been considering a behringer di20 just not sure how well it compares to other, your video helps.
Glad it's helped you!
Agreee:) thank youu
Great video. Thanks for your very thorough explanation.
Thank you!
I’m so glad you made this review. Was just about to buy a Klarna Teknik DN200 on a tight budget. As a live engineer, the Behringer is the best get out of jail DI for the money
It just does the job nicely! I'm glad you found it useful
Hi! First great job. Some input though on your testing. If the impedance of the guitar after you split the load using the splitter is both below the maximum input impedance then you're not going to notice a difference. Where you notice differences in DI boxes is 1:if your input impedance is lower than your source impedance, aka the input impedance for many DI boxes is lower than 1 Mega Ohm, this should lead to a cutoff of higher frequency. Of course, if your input source is too high then you will have a lower amplitude but no distortion of the original sound 2: when your signal is hotter than the input source then the transformers will saturate the input signal, better DI boxes add warmth to hot signals. If these factors are not present then the DI boxes will sound the same. Can you test with a hot signal and then also test with the highest impedance guitar that you have. This may start to show the differences between the two if any.
Thanks for that Dan! That sounds like a really good way to push the boxes to their limits. I'd love to see the results if someone was able to do the experiment you suggest. I'd also love to see this with a dedicated DI box unlike my Torpedo, where I'm not sure how much effort was put into the DI vox part of the unit.
More research needed definitely!
Very cool test dude, big eye opener, rock on❗️👀
Thank you!
was thinking buying the behringer for a dumb experiment for the guitarists in my band. They need a DI box so we can continue to track at home (live in a different state or else id just lend them my current one), so i was going to send them my current one when i upgraded it. But Also thought about a cheap 2 channel one, to see how recordings would turn out if they both tracked their guitar parts at the same time in a pseudo "live" recording feel. I may still buy it cuz its 25 bucks and thats practically free with a sweetwater card.
Should i get this or the di400p
Great video! Well done!
Thank you
Sound quality is definitely issue for me. But an even bigger issue is: will the bloody thing work when I pull it out of my gig bag for the first time in months? Just gotta get some of that reliability.
Well it is not worth over £500 more to get a bit less noise 🙂
Torpedo is obviously for pros in the studio. The Behringer is for us skint gigging musicians.
I use a stagg stereo passive di. It does the job fine on stage and gets knocked about. It cost £20. Wouldn't be without one now but if that failed I would buy a better active model
7:08 just curious DI box ground lift function couldnt break/fix computer usb ground loop problem?
I'm pretty sure I tried that and it made no difference but I can't fully remember
this DI if anything introduced more white noise, it sounded cleaner going direct to my interface
This is a bad test. The DI isn't generating noise, it's the job of the noise gate to remove noise, not the DI box. I don't even know what this is supposed to prove. The Behringer is a great product. It's insane to pay $500 for a direct box.
How do you explain more noise on the Behringer's tracks compared to the Two Notes? If the DI box isn't picking up interference and therefore adding noise to the signal, then what is?
In regards to the noise gate part of the test. I had to remove the noise gate in order to see which of the two DI boxes was adding noise to the signal. I found the Behringer was noisier than the Two Notes. A lot of engineers will make decisions on which DI box is better based on the amount of noise picked by the DI box in the signal chain. Personally I found the noise added by the Behringer to be easily manageable, however other engineers might have guitarists that pick weaker than I did - or use lower output pickups
@@gargantuasounds how do you explain the absence of noise when the noise gate is enabled. The di gets the signal after the noise gate. It could be argued that the Behringer deliverers a higher fidelity signal, noise and all.
@@sbesbesbe The noise gate is on the amp Sim. This is after the DI signal is recorded into Pro Tools. Therefore there's no noise after the noise gate is enabled because there is a noise gate on it. Noise isn't part of the fidelity of the audio. From my understanding noise is interference from various power supplies, radio frequencies and other electromagnetic interference and is not a part of the guitar signal. So more noise is not higher fidelity. It is - as defined - unwanted sound.
@@sbesbesbe a noise gate removes noise..
DI20 is garbage. Noise is too much.
It works for me with a noise gate, but I can imagine with certain bits of gear the noise could be too much.
@@gargantuasounds noise is too loud when applying distortion after DIb.
@@Tixoxod102 facts wish i read this i just purchased one today and its seriously cleaner going straight into my duet apogee interface, we shouldnt have to use a noise gate
@@alds9729 maybe newer DIs are revised? My was loud so much, that i didn't hear guitar noise.
@@Tixoxod102 hahaha same! I returned it and got the behringer DI100 instead and it’s perfect 👍