Customer Reviews

Countryman DT85 FET Direct Box (DT85)

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I needed another direct box for my project/room studio so I could record guitars and (someone else) playing bass at the same time. I have a A&H mixer with 8 direct outs going straight into a Delta 1010 card at 96k 24 bit. I have a Sansamp Para DI which is very nice, so I wanted to use it exclusively for bass guitar. I did some research for my type of guitar, a gibson sg standard with stock passive pickups, and went with the Countryman 85.

Got it today and gave it a whirl. Wow, this sounds amazing on a quality guitar!! It makes my SG sound like butter. It definitely ran hotter than the Sansamp into the mixer for phantom power. There's no knobs to change besides ground, it exactly captures the sound of your guitar pickups. If you have a passive pickup guitar I highly recommend this. The pickup selector and tone knobs on my guitar have never really made as much of a difference before. I'm extremely impressed.

note... you get when you get when you plug into this. I also have a daisyrock starter guitar for my daughter, so I jammed on that for a little bit as well.... and the results were not that great. The guitar is clearly to blame there because the SG was a step up from the sansamp to my ears.