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Hooch · Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 4:28 am Post subject:

Every pro sound company will see you have a guitar cable out of
your stuff an put a DI there for you to plug in to. Balanced or not.

Every FOH snake/monitor split is XLR. Every single one.
Otherwise it's break out adapters and figure out what will
work. Usually scratching heads ensue. And your last on
sound check.

Get your own DI if you want to have something consistent.
If you get something thats not Radial/Whirlwind/Countryman/Rapco it will
probably get used. Maybe not.

My 2 cents. Usually it's "Cool. Radial DI. Done."

John

DocBambs · Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 8:47 am Post subject:

michelkeijzers · Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 10:01 am Post subject:

alanjpearson · Senior Member Joined: 21 Feb 2012 Posts: 283

I have one of these:

http://www.thomann.de/gb/search_dir.html?xsid=dc17b643c703e6317b62df3c5da85e4f&sw=DI8E&x=0&y=0

It's a mixer and DI box in one unit - works really well.

If you don't need that complexity (how are you monitoring??) and less channels then this:

http://www.thomann.de/gb/behringer_di4000_ultra_di_pro.htm

R
Alan

EnjoyRC · Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 12:03 pm Post subject:

keyplayer14 · Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 12:20 pm Post subject:

music_avijeet · Junior Member Joined: 18 Jan 2012 Posts: 57

SanderXpander · Platinum Member Joined: 29 Jul 2011 Posts: 7860

I use a small A&H mixer with XLR outs for smaller venues. It doesn't mind phantom much, and it has a 30db pad switch, if not a ground lift. Lets me do my own monitor mix though, and sum to the FOH, plus it has a few mic channels and a decent verb for duo or trio gigs.

Usually when they really need the boards separately, they're large venues with plenty of channels and DIs anyways.

michelkeijzers · Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 10:02 am Post subject:

mathieumaes · Senior Member Joined: 10 Dec 2011 Posts: 430

I have a rack softbag which I used on stage. It contains a Behringer 16 channels rack mixer, a wireless receiver and a 4 channel Behringer DI rack. The PA guy only needs to plug his XLR cables into my DI's in the bag.

In my old setup I had 4 different instruments that produce sounds, now I have just the Kronos and the wireless receiver. I'm considering hooking up the receiver into an input of the Kronos, so I no longer need a mixer.

My new band is slightly more professional, so I don't think having DI's is my responsability anymore...
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Sanrek · Joined: 25 Apr 2012 Posts: 26 Location: France

Like the OP (and some others) I'm currently trying to figure a bit what I really need to get things done in the right way.

...and I'm having a hard time with it, here is the situation.

When I play with my band, we can have two configurations:

Situation 1 - Small-medium gigs: We use our own main mixer, with Kronos main L/R & Aux 1/2 TRS jack balanced line out -> Mixer stereo line inputs pairs (TRS jack balanced, while having TRS to XLR and vice-versa cables to deal with the snake)

Situation 2 - Big gigs: Here we have the usual PA guys and a XLR snake going to the main mixer (mic level).

So far it seems that for the first case, as the Kronos outputs are already balanced and having to stay with line levels, I would only need to add a line isolatior to avoid the eventual humming problems.
(something like 2x: http://www.radialeng.com/r2011/twiniso.php )

But for the second one, I would need a real DI box to go down to mic level as well, so a http://www.radialeng.com/r2011/prod2.php or http://www.radialeng.com/r2011/jdiduplex.php )

(Yeah I know PA guys are supposed to provide DIs, but with one of my biggest show ruined because of a cheap DI failing in the middle of it (oops...no main synth anymore...at the 2nd song), I prefer to be sure of my gear Wink

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jeremykeys · Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 12:36 pm Post subject:

A D.I. box also enables you to split your signal so that is you are using your own monitor system you can use the same output jacks of you keyboard. You usually have 2 or 4 sets of outputs. 2 if you have a mono D.I. 1/4 inch for your own system and XLR for the house system.
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michelkeijzers · Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 1:34 pm Post subject:

jeremykeys · Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 2:10 pm Post subject:

You're right about that but I've always used a D.I. to get into the P.A. if I'm only using 1 keyboard. My monitor system is mono so if I want stereo in the P.A. i have to go with a D.I. Plus, I like the safety factor of having a transformer between me and somebody else's gear. I'm using an old Whirlwind passive D.I. I've had it for years and so far it has never failed me although I'm seriously thinking about a Radial box now. They sound fantastic in that they don't colour your sound at all.
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