ART Dual RDB

You can spend a small fortune buying re-amping boxes and, in an environment where a single microphone or preamp may cost thousands of pounds, it would be appropriate to also spend a good sum on a re-amping tool. However, if you are a cash strapped amateur musician or project studio owner this little box will do a quality job for a small amount of money.

I set this up with the Focusrite Liquid Saffire 56 and it worked beautifully both as a tool to pass stereo tracks back through the emulated preamps and also to send my late night recorded guitar tracks through my amps when daylight allowed a little more noise to be made. It's a chunky little fella with a good weight to it and feels like it will last. All knobs and switches also feel like quality items that won't let you down.

A great bit of kit that does its job well at a bargain price!

I've reamped before with ordinary DI-boxes opposite combined with preamps and building some jigs to fit the occasion - every effect pedal and amp has it's own vagaries. For example using non-true bypass FX-pedal after turned around passive DI (tricky cabling) and then feeding it into actually desired effect pedal and/or amp.
ART Dual RDB is very obvious on how to use, it is stereo! Or dual. You can adjust the level on the device, very handy feature. No power source, it is passive. Minimum wiring is needed. Personally I do not really believe the story behind ultra-expensive reamping devices. If you are reamping for full band mix, it really makes no audible difference. The only idea behind it is to match the impedances of instrument amplifier's input and line-signal's output.
I have few other ART DI boxes and they have not failed me. The construction is simple, what's there to fail?

I usually like Art products. and in fact the built quality and features of this reamp-box are great as I would expect. the problem here, at least in my case, is the sound.
the output level is way too low, even cranking up the volume on my soundcard output and setting the level to the max on the box, the signal is still not hot enough to simulate the level of a guitar. the result is the drive on the amp never gets to a proper level, leaving the sound quite dull.
I bought instead a Palmer reamp box and, lo and behold, it sounds just like the output from a guitar.
I don't discard the possibility that I got a faulty product, in which case disregard my review. Otherwise, I just wouldn't recommend this product even thou I still recommend the brand.

This is an excellent product for reamping and for connecting any kind of device (mixer, computer, synth etc.) to a guitar amp, offering the best feature/price ratio. I do not have other reamp devices to compare it to but connectivity-wise it is excellent, offering two channels and both balanced xlr and imbalanced jack connectors.

I also found out that the quality of the connected device plays an important role on the noise at the output of this reamp DI; When I connected a cheap drum computer with a noisy PSU this created annoying noise at the output the ART, nevertheless the noise went away when I connected through my mixer. Thus perhaps the problem that a negative reviewer had in the past was because of the connected device and not the reamp DI itself.