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Deactivate phantom +48v power or another solution?

The problem is that with audio, I often seen uneducated people using very wrong connections and everything seems to work fine!
Example in a church band the bass player was using a speaker cable as his patch cord!! Said he never noticed that it was! I most certainly noticed a bad hum but he just thought the amp needed fixing. Not really his fault as speaker cables most certainly can look like patch cables.

The best recommendation I can give to anyone who is taking up audio as a hobby or profession is to sit down and start reading the Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Handbook. It is available as a real book or free as a PDF.

Then all this technical advice and jargon will make sense. And you become very confident about your set up. There is a reason why we do things the way we do them.

Radial stuff is an investment not a purchase.But your paying for the build quality for using it on stage. In a studio cheap build quality is not as important. But it is my first choice.

Behringer Ultra DI D 120. And it has 3 options for input impedance. 2 channels for $50. Owned mine for a very long time. The only Behringer product I own that didn’t break!
 
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Here is another option:


This looks like a reputable company and the product looks good. One can easily get carried away with talking about DI box quality but the fact is in a blind test many would have trouble picking very expensive units from cheaper units. The Palmer unit is situated somewhere in the mid price range and looks like good value.
 
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