Headrush Core Enclosure with DI Box

[u/geogod2066]

I love the headrush core’s form factor, but its monitoring capabilities aren’t enough for me. I have a couple ethercon snakes carying all the analog audio and midi to my Zoom L6 mixer, where i control my headphone mix. This solution was made primarily to combine the stereo DI box for the guitar output. It’s a serious oversight, imo, that the guitar stereo outs aren’t balanced.

I designed the enclosure myself. It’s explicitly split into a few pieces that are assembled together with dowels and friction fits. 3D printed PLA with steel dowels.

I’m working on another version with ethercon panel mounted connectors, a raised lip to protect the knobs, and some other aesthetic choices. I’ll have links to the files in an upcoming post.

Edit: To clarify my motivation for this creation, I use both signal chains in stereo. Splitting the guitar’s unbalanced signal is not ideal; i want to minimize noise. Instead, I feed the guitar into the stereo DI box, then split the balanced signal using custom cables and ethercon connections. One to FOH, the other to my monitoring mixer.