Countryman Type 85 Active Direct Box Black, Very Good

Offered for sale;

Used Countryman Type 85 Active Direct Box.

This DI box is in very good condition, fully functional.

“An industry standard with road-proven ruggedness, the Type 85 connects any high-impedance instrument pickup, even piezo pickups, to a balanced microphone (XLR type) input. It provides a strong, clean signal to the mix board without adding noise or distortion. It won’t change the tone or volume you hear from your own amp like passive direct boxes. It won’t break just when you need it. It won’t develop a dead battery on stage because it runs on Phantom power.”

Connectors and switches are recessed into a single-piece extruded case with extra-thick walls. You can literally drive a truck over a Type 85 without hurting it. Internal electronics are molded in a solid epoxy block and fully protected against electrical damage. The input can withstand 220 V AC all day long and static spikes up to 20,000 V.

Most mixing consoles provide 48 V Phantom power and the Type 85 will automatically use it. If you don’t have Phantom power, the Type 85 will run for about 400 hours from a single internal 9 V battery.

The Type 85 uses only hand-selected high-quality discrete components woven into a single-ended class A circuit, much like a classic tube microphone preamp. The Type 85 has an incredibly smooth, sweet sound. Unlike many active DI boxes, the Type 85 can always isolate ground, even when running on Phantom power, to help eliminate hum and buzz from ground problems. The Type 85 doesn’t have roll off switches or effects. Adjusting the frequency content of a sound source is an artistic decision best done at the mixing location where you can hear the results and easily make changes.

Frequency Response: 20 Hz to 20 kHz +- 1 dB

Noise Floor (shorted input): .63 µV RMS (-122 dBu)

Power Requirements:  9 V battery or .4 mA @ 48 V Phantom

Input Protection:  220 V RMS and 20,000 V static discharges

Voltage Gain: -10 dB in Pickup mode / -46 dB in Speaker mode

RF Filtering:  250 kHz Low Pass on input / 30 kHz Low Pass on output

Maximum Input Level:  5 V P-P in Pickup mode / 300 V P-P in Speaker mode

Equal to 2,800 Watts into 4 Ohms

Distortion:  .018% THD @ 1 kHz and 1 V P-P in / .08% IMD 10 kHz/60 Hz 1 V P-P in

Input Resistance:  10 MΩ in Pickup mode (10 times the input resistance of a typical guitar amplifier.)

Input Capacitance: 160 pF, equal to two meters of low-capacitance guitar cable.

Dimensions:  1.75 in x 3 in x 5 in (45 mm x 77 mm x 127 mm)

Weight:  18.5 oz (.52 kg)
 
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