The Countryman 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 wont change the tone or volume you hear from your own amp like passive direct boxes. It wont break just when you need it. It wont develop a dead battery on stage because it runs on Phantom power.

How do you send the purest, warmest and most natural signal out of a high-impedance instrument to a balanced mic input at the console? Countryman's Type 85 Direct Interface box.

Reflecting the ultimate engineering and highest-quality materials, the Type 85 DI Box adds nothing and removes nothing from the instrument's signal. No distortion. No electronic hum or buzz. No loss of dynamic range. It's the only active direct box that delivers such a clear, strong, warm signal to the mixer.

What's more, its design is sleek, compact, and virtually indestructible, and its 9V battery back up to phantom power helps ensure it will never lose power onstage. Countryman's Type 85 is hands-down the most valuable and cost-effective direct box on the market!

Indestructable
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.

Battery or Phantom Power
Most mixing consoles provide 48 V Phantom power and the Type 85 will automatically use it. If you dont have Phantom power, the Type 85 will run for about 400 hours from a single internal 9 V battery.

Simply Exceptional Sound
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 doesnt 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.

Specifications:

• Frequency Response:
  20 Hz to 20 kHz +- 1 dB
• Noise Floor (shorted input):
  .63 ?V 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 MOhms in Pickup mode (10 times the input resistance of a typical guitar amplifier.)
• Input Capacitance:
  160 picofarad, equal to two feet 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)