Description
An essential tool for every musician and engineer, the MDB-1P passive DI has everything you need to adapt unbalanced, high-impedance audio to a balanced, low-impedance output with minimal noise. Featuring a 1/4” high-impedance input and thru with -15dB pad and a balanced XLR output with ground lift.
MDB Series Direct Boxes
From acoustic guitars to laptops, always sound your best with MDB Series Direct Boxes. Available in four different models, the MDB Series will give you the peace of mind that your sound will faithfully get to your audience the way that you hear it on stage.
Be an Audio Hero
Direct boxes are an essential tool for any stage or studio. They make it easy to get clean, low-noise audio to a mixer no matter what instrument you are using. Available in four versatile models, our ultra-affordable DI’s offer the Mackie sound quality that you expect with Built-Like-A-Tank construction for maximum reliability. From acoustic guitars to laptops, be ready for anything with MDB Series direct boxes.
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Mackie MDB-1P Passive Direct BoxAn essential tool for every musician and engineer, the MDB-1P Passive DI has everything you need to adapt unbalanced, high-impedance audio to a balanced, low-impedance output with minimal noise. Featuring a 1/4” high-impedance input and thru with -15db pad and a balanced XLR output with ground lift. |
Mackie MDB-1A Active Direct BoxGreat for active instruments like guitars and basses with active pickups and preamps, the MDB-1A Active DI features increased headroom and distortion-free operation. Featuring a 1/4″ high-impedance input and thru with -20db pad plus a Merge switch that turns the Thru jack into a second input, perfect for summing a stereo source to a mono output. The balanced XLR output features switches for Polarity, Low Cut, and Ground Lift. For maximum convenience, the MDB-1A is powered by 48v phantom power. |
Mackie MDB-2P Stereo Direct BoxGreat for stereo sources like keyboards and synthesizers, the MDB-2P is an essential tool for electronic musicians, live sound venues, and recording studios. The MDB-2P Stereo Passive DI features dual 1/4” high-impedance inputs with Thru outputs and -15db pads, and dual low-impedance XLR outputs with ground lift. |
Mackie MDB-USB Active Stereo Direct BoxWith the bus-powered MDB-USB Stereo DI, the days of relying on your headphone jack to get audio from a computer into analog gear are over. Combining a high-resolution audio interface with a noise and distortion-free stereo DI, MDB-USB converts your digital audio into clean, balanced, stereo output. Featuring an output level control, headphone output, and mono sum for maximum versatility. Analog outputs are dual XLR with ground lift. |
Rob S –
Most excellent product
I love the product, it is excellent quality, well constructed and performs the way it should, very happy with Amazon delivery and the product as advertised
P. Dankers –
Solid performer from Mackie
I really like this particular model because I don’t have to carry around spare batteries. Of course, you are reliant upon your mixer having phantom power, so that is an important limitation to be aware of if you are relying upon other people’s boards. But if you are using your own board, this is a cool piece of hardware and has a lot of nice features like the 15db pad, the ability to combine two sources or use the second 1/4″ jack as a “through” jack. I also like the ability to switch polarity and the ground lift. In addition, it feels like a solid little box that is well made. I’ve been using them for about a year now with no issues – just nice quiet signal.
Dave –
Works perfectly for my Yamaha YC64 keyboard.
Works perfectly for my Yamaha YC64 keyboard.Gets rid of ground loop noise.Always get compliments from the sound guy, when I show up at a gig, with this.I use the pass through 1/4″ for my monitor amps, and the balanced outputs for the house mixer.
Jason Parra –
Funciona perfecto y la construcción es sólida.
La he probado en situaciones diferentes y diferentes ambientes y ha respondido muy bien, su caja es bastante sólida lo cuál me da la tranquilidad que sea duradera.
deepfrequency –
Perfect
This DI is working perfectly for my application. I have a Gibson EB3 bass wired in Stereo which needs Two inputs combined down to One. This is perfect. In addition the XLR connection to the DAW is low signal loss.
Nangpyrkhatbha Ryntathiang –
Great in every way
Great build quality and really sturdy. Also works great in my mix
Amazon Customer –
QUALITY & PERFORMANCE
I have had his and buzz issues for the last one year, … Being in the show business even if you have the best sound system but have feedback, hiss, buzz you get bad reviews and less recommendation in the industry.I did some research and found industry players handling these issues with the right power management gear not forgetting DI boxes, and that is where this review comes in.Arguably there are many different DI boxes, different brands, different schemes but I decided to match my Mackie digital console with Mackie DI’s … the channel outputs that I input using the DI including some outputs to Powered monitirs are now cleaner and I can push decibels higher without a hiss.Of course the DI is made for different usage, but I chose to get Mackie DI to match my FOH & Monitor system.
Dwayne Holland –
They Just Work!
Purchased them and didn’t have a chance to check before the show. Plugged them in as keyboard DI’s and they performed very well! No complaints from the artist.
Blues Crab –
Solid, flexible, affordable active direct box
Very solidly built, quiet, with many useful features. An excellent value compared with other active direct boxes that don’t include amp or cabinet simulators. Phantom-powered (48v) so you’ll need a mixer on the output side of the XLR, although it will send the Thru signal to an amp even when the MDB-1A isn’t powered (with the Merge/dual input off). This last feature is actually very useful not only for driving an amp onstage as a monitor while the low-Z signal goes to the mixer. I have the MDB-1A on my pedal board, and the Thru lets me practice with an amp without taking things apart when I’m not using a mixer. Or, as in the picture I’m running modulation & OD/distortion in two separate signal chains before merging them in the MDP-1A.
Amazon Customer –
Great dual channel direct box
I’m a professional audio engineer and I’ve used a lot of direct boxes this one seems to work really well it seems almost transparent there is no background noise or audio hits in anyway highly recommend this unit currently using it on a Yamaha motif digital keyboard and it sounds just as good as it doesn’t headphones