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Originally Posted by sand
thanks! now I am more confused lol. I did send and email to Radial company becuase the sb1 and pro048 are recommended for acoustic guitars. But I'll take your advice into consideration.
I had replied before but it didn't show to who...
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Radial does recommend their active line of DIs for acoustic guitars, but if your guitar has a built-in preamp a passive DI (SB-2, ProDI, etc.) will work just fine. Active DIs are additional gain stages, which is good for acoustic guitars with passive piezo pickups or low-output systems to help get a strong enough signal to a mixer, but not necessarily needed otherwise. In the end, either variety will work. Some people prefer the slight difference in how a good passive DI sounds over active. I recorded the same guitar through a ProDI, a SB-1, and directly into a USB interface, and found the passive ProDI to be my favorite. Whether or not anyone else would tell a difference is another matter. :-)