Anyone have any experience wiring up an onboard pre like OBP-3 with a DI out? I seem to remember seeing this on some pics of basses, but never had the chance to check it out.

Just wondering how is sounds compared to running through a "transparent" DI box.

My own design and construction custom onboard pre's will happily drive a standard PA poweramp via a balanced out, if I set the gain on them that high. Sounds excellent, and by that I mean, very little audible signature which was the design goal (pickups, bass, tone controls and preamp do the sonic shaping). Most of the lower/mid cost commercial outboard DI's I've tried in the past have sounded pretty dire.

I can only think of Wals as having an onboard DI, but there may be others.