Aion Fx L5 pre w/ XLR out?

[Diynot]

Not sure if you saw this but I just happened to come across it and thought it might be of interest to you.

Unicab with input switch, thru and balanced XLR out

After some helpful posts in this thread and a lot of thorough recording tests (vs going direct or my homemade ISO cab) I finally boxed up my Unicab. As usual, my splatter/spray nonsense resulted in some weird texture effects. I stole a few additions from elsewhere, like the following...

forum.pedalpcb.com

Simple DI box - Tataylino.com

Last time I have featured an active Di box circuit. Here is a more simple circuit that only uses 1 JFET instead of an OPAMP.

tataylino.com

Looks like it would be easy to try.

Thanks, I had. And yeah, that is way simpler than even the sludgehammer XLR block. Part of me doesn’t want to trust it though due to its simplicity. I also found a Craig Anderton project for an opamp one, but it runs off 2 9v batteries for headroom and running the rails

 

[jwin615]

There's also the diyre box(es)

FE2 Direct Input Box Kit

Build your own boutique passive direct box. Our popular DI box kit is back with expanded features and two transformer options. The FE2's studio-quality electronics are housed in an architectural aluminum enclosure that's rugged enough for the road. The new FE2 features a through jack for...

www.diyrecordingequipment.com

And the CAPI options(good stuff)

Classic Audio Products, Inc.

Or a little less here, 45ish bones gets you a German made transformer and a pcb to mount. Not bad.

Classic Audio Products, Inc.

 

[AndrewGoria]

Sort of what I would be doing at this point since putting a DI/XLR directly in the L5 (or any pre/dirt/whatever) and direct to FOH, would not sound great w/o a cab sim. So now it’s become, how do I add an XLR to the Unicab.

You could use the Footswitch DI from Effects Layouts. I recently built the Drebel Preamp and put one in and it works great. Thought about adding one to my cabsim as well. Footswitch DI PCB

 

[Diynot]

You could use the Footswitch DI from Effects Layouts. I recently built the Drebel Preamp and put one in and it works great. Thought about adding one to my cabsim as well. Footswitch DI PCB

I have seen it mentioned around esp recently. I did decide to do up a unicab with the tataylino https://tataylino.com/simple-di-box/#google_vignette simple DI circuit. Still working on the project since I got pulled into a guitar project for a bit