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Your cart is empty.Those of us at Sweetwater who have been privileged to work on vintage Neve consoles can attest to the vibrant richness and powerful punch that Rupert's electronics impart to your signal. Now there's a direct box that delivers this magic: the Rupert Neve Designs RNDI. Sporting fastidiously developed custom transformers and Class A biased, discrete FET amplifiers, the RNDI makes your bass, guitar, keyboard - or any instrument with a piezo pickup - sound massive and amazing. If you record music or do live sound, you take signals direct all the time. Might as well invest in a killer direct box: Rupert Neve Designs' RNDI. The Neve of direct boxesWith its high input headroom, you can feed the RNDI a pro line-level source without a pad, and in Speaker mode, the RNDI can handle the full brunt of a 1000W power amp (for you EE types, that's +41.5dBU). The
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2025
Best DI on the market. I get some really clean nice tones out of this, but do be aware you need a good preamp to get the most out of it.NOTICE: Be aware that you can't use this DI line-out like other active DI's into a line-input, because it requires phantom power to operate. I'm not aware of any preamps that supply phantom power via their line-inputs, so you basically have to run this unit into a microphone preamp.Most microphone preamps have some sort of "color" added to them for character, so you'll want to find a really clean mic-pre that doesn't color the tone in any way. I personally love that it's phantom powered, but I could see why that would be a problem for some people trying to bypass the pre's on their interface entirely.
Sandra Carte
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2024
love this thing. literally removes any icky-ness of any signal that goes through it. cannot even listen to my preamp pedals without it now. the difference is crazy. also i use the Thru output to my bass amp and it sounds so good. best 300$ i have ever spent. Thank you Rupert Neve Designs, you have changed my life forever lol.
dunscotus60
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2023
It's an Rupert Neve Designs direct box, of course it works like a charm—as expected.
Stephen Morton
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2022
I replaced my Noble DI with the RNDI. Fantastic sounds for the money, Noble is good but way overpriced.Solid construction, sleek design!
MDE
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2020
Well, I thought I knew more (alot more) than the aver pro audio tech head about DI's. In fact I have bought, used and sold 7 different brands and models over the years. Landed on Radial Engineering's solid designs of the JDI and J48. . what's not to like? I have installed them in multiple churches and own several myself. THEN, it happened. . a Sweetwater gear catalog came in the mail, I perused it and said- "What's that?". Spent the next several hours reading through ALL of the SWeetwater reviews on the RNDI. Installed it on a Fender JazzBass with active electronics. . . night and day improvement, then bought a second one to install on acoustic guitar, stunning difference. While I will alwasy be a Rdial fan sIv'e ahd strong success using theri DI's, the RNDI is simply differnt and markedly more musical than any DI I ahve ever heard. I sepnt many hours viewing YouTUbe videos of Bass guitars through multiple DI's and alwasy the RNDI shone brighter than the rest. AS a "tone freak", this is the real thing, complete tone purity. Connected a Motif keyboard to it- "pure tone" like the sytnh came alive! A taste of Neve magic. No comparison to anything I've ever heard or used.
0utLa3D
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2019
I researched the options at this price point fairly extensively, and the ability to put the Neve between amp and speaker as well as between your instrument and the your amp clinched it for me. To say this device doesn't disappoint is an understatement. Of course the instrument to amp DI works perfectly and sounds great with classic Neve sonic characteristics. With the flip of a front panel switch, changing a few cables and insertion of your choice of speaker emulator plugin (I typically use Lancaster or the two notes audio impulse responses and there are tons of good free and paid IR's online) and you get real, great amp tone and touch sensitivity into your DAW. Note: ** Make sure you (i) use speaker [i.e., not instrument] cables to attach the line in from the amp and to a speaker load to the 1/4" output jack on the front to avoid amp damage; and (ii) make sure you remember to put a speaker emulator on it or it will probably sound rather disappointing). I went for the single channel version, but if I had it to do again I would have purchased the two channel so both sides are matched when I want to use it for a stereo source. Hope this is helpful.
Luciano Castelluccio
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2017
Good job!
KenJr
Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2016
This thing is just awesome. I replaced a LR Baggs Venue DI in my acoustic guitar rig with this thing. I had to add a tuner and a paraEQ but tonally it was all worth it. This thing is rich and warm and the low end is incredible. I can see why so many bass players fall in love with this. I looked at quite a few options and decided to pull the trigger on this one - I wouldn't go back. Dig around on YouTube and search for this thing and you'll see a video that I did on my acoustic rig. There's not much out there on it right now but I promise you won't be disappointed. This is a crucial part of a very expensive rig (Maton 808TE, Strymon & Empress pedals, A&H Qu-16 mixer, EAW speakers, etc...) that I use for our acoustic performances and I assure you it will be on my board for a long time...
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