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Active di box for bass.
And thus the active di box was born.
Ye old fender p bass was happy the thud had returned.
Although many modern dis are far more.
So for the next bunch of years everything worked just ducky until one day some guy decided to put a 9 volt battery inside the bass and buffer the signal.
There are two types of di boxes and like most electronics this boils down to active and passive and which to get is pretty important and depends on your bass circuitry.
Some people claim to prefer the para driver di for bass though it s more focused.
Born out of necessity in studios such as motown and united sound systems to accommodate the electric instruments emerging in the 1960s direct boxes also known as dis which stands for direct inject began as a way to resolve a basic impedance mismatch between electrodynamic guitar pickups and sensitive studio electronics.