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Acme Audio Motown D.I. WB-3 THE SOUND THAT MADE HISTORY Motown backing musicians like James Jamerson, Bob Babbitt and Dennis Coffey defined the sound of a generation with their soulful playing and crisply captured sounds. Thanks to the direct in box created by a Detroit area engineer, the musicians plugged straight in and achieved a distinct, colorful distortion that would become recognizable all over the world. Recreated by Acme Audio, the new Motown D.I. WB-3 brings the same type of character as the original, in addition to the low frequency magnetic saturation that has helped to make the device famous. RECREATING A CLASSIC TRANSFORMER Production on the A-11/12J transformers utilized in the original Motown D.I. has stopped since the first run of the box and NOS versions of the product are extremely rare. In order to recreate the sound of Acme Audios Wolf Box III, the Detroit-based brands exact replica of the first Motown D.I., engineers went to work painstakingly replicating the original transformers used. Instead of settling for less, these newly created transformers followed the exact specifications of the initial design. HISTORY OF THE MOTOWN D.I. BOX The story of the direct box begins in the late 1950s, when Dr. Edward Wolfdrum, PhD. began developing the piece of gear using the famed Triad A-11/12J transformers. After selling his first unit to Jack Brown at Fortune Records, a smaller Detroit record label, Edward began distributing his invention to recording studios and television stations all over Southeastern Michigan. In the end, Wolfdrum became an engineer for some of Detroits best known recording studios, including Golden World, Motown and United Sound Studios. These studios and the gear that Wolfdrum worked on would become synonymous with some of the citys greatest musical exports. While its up for debate whether he was the first to create a direct input box, the legacy of Wolfdrums work lives on in the important music it helped to make.

Acme Audio Motown D.I. WB-3

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welcome everybody today we're looking at the Acme audio Motown di really excited about this I met Al from Acme at NAMM a few months ago and he was really kind enough to send me a Motown bi to let me demo it when I played it at NAMM it was like I don't think you think of di boxes is musical but this was music well I played bass through it and guitar through it and it's really blown away so real fortunate that now let me demo it so I got for one of the Motown DI is just a standard passive direct box it has an attenuator it can also be used for reamping and all that fun stuff but for today's purposes we're going to listen to the sound of it as a direct box the other direct box I'm using is kind of your standard everyday direct box that you'll get on a gig I think it needs to remain nameless for our purposes today and I have a little switch or a box to go between so when the light is red we