Samson MDA1 Mono Active Direct Box

Sound improves drastically. Deep heavy comfortable sound.

This is a very nice Active DI box for electric guitar with passive pickups. The input impedance is 1 Mega ohm which is good for all electric guitar except guitars with piezo pickups. Quality of sound is great. It preserves the highend tones. It is able to drive the tone Over longer cables. It can also be used to plug in to Analog mixer which doesn't have HiZ/INST input and has only Line/Mic level inputs. Works with Battery and Phantom power and has a Thru to connect to amp for Double tracking with no lag. Price is fantastic. A value for money productConsCannot be used for guitars with piezo pickups which require input impedance ok 10 mega ohmWish it came with XLR cable and battery so that it can be ready to use out of the pack

Working pretty fine, slight damage on Transit although!

Absolutely amazing...it's top grade material

All testing has been done with multiple 6 and 7 string guitars having medium and high output humbuckers. Audio interfaces used are Motu M2 and Focusrite Scarlett Solo (3rd gen). Pickups used are Ibanez Quantum (6 and 7 string), Schecter Diamond (7 string), Seymour Duncan Distortion (6 string), Sentient (6 and 7 string), Nazgul (6 and 7 string) and Black Winter (6 string).This DI box works great with guitars having medium output pickups like the Quantum and Diamond pickups. Noticed a slight low-end boost with high output 6 string pickups like the Nazgul and Black Winter which can be cured with EQ-ing if you don't like it. However, I would not recommend this with the high output 7 string Nazgul. The 6 and 7 string versions of the same pickup have different electrical characteristics and it seems to be impossible to match the impedance of the 7 string version with this DI box. I hear all sorts of weird crackling noises while palm muting even with the gain set to -15dB and it gets worse with the activation of the ground lift switch. The bass bloat also becomes worse with low tuning on a 7 string.

I've been playing Bass for over 30 years, mostly for fun but some on stage and this just upped my game. I was running out of the balanced output of my combo amp but wasn't happy with the sound through the PA. I switched to this DI box and the sound is definitely cleaner.The one thing I don't like about it is that it requires a 9v battery. There is no way to connect the box to an external 9v power source. The one thing I thought would work, an adapter that came with my 9v power supply, won't because the battery is a direct fit.

I carry two of these in my sound bag for pick ups or instruments that have very low output or sound tinny and weak. Built like a tank, with enough controls to make everything work with it. I am very pleased with this DI.

Après plusieurs concerts, je suis très content de cette boite de direct. Je l'utilise pour ma basse électrique car avec mon groupe nous jouons souvent dans un endroit très exigüe et cette boite permet de jouer sans ampli, en se branchant direct sur la console de mixage, ça gagne de la place. Ma basse est passive, il me fallait donc un boite de DI active pour amplifier mon signal. Avec cette boite mon son est bon, bien dynamique, sans bruit parasite. Je l'ai intégrée dans mon pedalboard car elle n'est pas très volumineuse, et possède une sortie "jack" THRU qui permet (même si la boite n'est pas alimentée en électricité) de récupérer un signal de sortie identique à celui d'entrée, ça évite de déconnecter la boite du pedalboard quand on n'en a pas l'utilité. Bref cette Samson S-max MDA1 est juste parfaite !

Utilizzato in concerto e se voglio dare un suono decente al mio strumento ormai non posso più farne a meno. Consigliatissimo

El producto llegó a tiempo pero la caja venía algo golpeada, pero al abrirla todo estaba bien, en la cuestión de la calidad de construcción y funcionalidad superó las expectativas realmente a pesar de su bajo precio la he probado con varios cables y no mete ruido, si volvería a comprar otra o varias cajas de estas