DI->Stompbox for chassis

[aron]

It occurred to me that we can take a cheap DI box and get a chassis+jacks for less than $10. The input and output are already drilled AND you can get XLR out too!
Anyone try this? I think I will.
http://www.amazon.com/Pyle-Pro-PDC21-Instrument-Balanced-Unbalanced/dp/B0027V760M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425072509&sr=8-1&keywords=DI+box

[JerS]

interesting. I would be really curious to see what transformer is in that thing. It is an unbelievable price really.

[aron]

You could easily build a booster in this thing. Probably a fuzz face type pedal - point to point wired. It could be cool.

[Eddododo]

I have made a myriad of pedals out of salvaged DIs .. I use the xlr abscess to facilitate the LED..  I had these perfect weird translucent plastic caps that filled the hole and  poke out to glow by the led, but i eventually cracked them all :p

[ashcat_lt]

I have a couple of the dual versions of that thing.  They are perfectly functional as is.  I hacked one of them to remove the transformer and use it as a straight wire pseudo-balancing box/ 1/4>XLR converter which works pretty darn well also. 

I used a DI box for a sort of effect loop/"push-to-talk" switch/pedal power supply for a rather specific application at one point.  I needed four 1/4" jacks, so had to pop two holes for that plus five or six for DC jacks and the one for the switch.  Since it was meant to interface a microphone with guitar pedals, I was going to replace the XLR M with an F and run through the transformer for a voltage step-up, but never got around to that, and ended up kind of abandoning that project.

[tubegeek]

That's absolutely insane pricing. Wow.

[aron]

It might be a PAIN to drill into these but will see.