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===Acoustic or electric instruments===
DI boxes can be used on instruments with electronic circuitry and [[pickup (music technology)|pickup]]s that do not contain an XLR balanced output. An example of this application would be an electric keyboard that needs to be connected to a mixing board, either directly or through an [[Audio multicore cable|audio snake]]. Another example would be an acoustic guitar with pickups, an electric guitar or bass guitar, or a double bass with piezoelectric pickups. These instruments could be plugged into a DI box, and the DI signal would be mixed through a mixing console into a main or monitor mix.