If you run live sound, then heres a handy tool youll want to keep in your bag of tricks. The Whirlwind podDI is a passive direct box thats purpose built for patching iPods, CD players, Laptops, and any other consumer music device into your mixing console. Like all of Whirlwinds direct boxes, the podDI is built tough enough to take the rigors of the stage and has handy controls that are easy to use. A stereo 1/8" jack serves as the podDIs main input, though it has a stereo pair of RCA input jacks as well. Whats even better is that the podDIs two sets of inputs run in parallel, so you can use one as an input and the other as a loop-though output to a personal monitor on stage - a real life saver! Also, theres a pair of attenuators for the left and right input channels, so