Are you a guitar player looking for a DI—one with a vintage-style parametric EQ section? Then you’re in luck, because Tech 21, the lauded luminaries behind SansAmp, have a pedal for you. With low-shelving, high-shelving, and two frequency-selectable parametric midrange bands, the Q/Strip utilizes a 100% analog MOSFET design to help you achieve a warm, creamy guitar tone evocative of classic analog consoles—a very specific console, if you’re judging by the pedal’s ruby-on-gray color scheme.
In addition to the shelving and parametric EQs, the pedal offers low- and high-pass filtering to help you get rid of unwanted rumble and undesirable treble. The Q/Strip sports a 1/4" parallel pass through jack so you can feed multiple sources. This makes it quite handy for study use, as you can route signal to an amplifier, but also pass audio straight to a preamp for use with in-the-box amp simulators in the mixing phase. Through an XLR output, you can straight to the house’s PA, making this DI quite useful in live, yet amp-less, scenarios. In fact, the EQ can recreate the frequency curves of different cabinets, so you can use the box to get a more realistic sound through the house’s rig. There are a few other features that might interest various guitar players, so feel free to check out the product page.
