Your favourite "colour/dirt" DI trannies on the market?

Joe_caithness · Mar 4, 2013

hey guys,

I am doing a bit of research into transformers easily available for making DI boxes, just for fun at home.

I have spotted an OEP and an alarmingly similar Vigortronix tranny on Farnell, and am looking for something around that price range, maybe upto 20 quid a tranny, but not the price range of your Sowters and Jensens.

Any cool stuff I should be looking at?

thanks!

PeteC · Mar 4, 2013

Hi Joe,

I used the OEP for a Bo Hansen DI box and I love it for both recording and reinforcing a bass through the F.O.H pa.
It has a nice coloration in the Bo Hansen design.

I'd recommend it for the money There are others of course.....

Rgds
Pete

abbey road d enfer · Mar 5, 2013

Joe_caithness said:
I am doing a bit of research into transformers easily available for making DI boxes, just for fun at home.

You want passive or active DI? Makes a lot of difference...

Joe_caithness · Mar 6, 2013

Sorry I meant Passive, should have been clearer!

abbey road d enfer · Mar 6, 2013

Yeah, that rules out the OEP in a Bo Hansen...
I'm sorry, I don't have any nice comment on passive DI's, whatever the cost.

tv · Mar 6, 2013

For the ultimate experience in lo-fi, dirt, color, just use some cheap mains 220/24V trafo. Be sure to shield it, or else it will pick up mucho RFI and magnetic dirt.

CJ · Mar 6, 2013

you might try a Beyer mic transformer, it has a very small core, easier to saturate with 100 mv guitar pickup, plenty of henries at the guitar end, if you drove it with a couple of fets, it would probably sound pretty good,

Joe_caithness · Mar 10, 2013

Having a read on the Bo DI, thinking of doing one of these with an OEP, then a passive OEP DIY recording equipment style and comparing, then I can try switching the trannies in each

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