Royer Labs has announced its second-generation in-line signal booster, the dBooster2. In addition to being a phantom powered signal booster and impedance buffer for both ribbon and dynamic microphones, the second-generation dBooster2 offers independent two-channel functionality and doubles as a DI to accommodate signal levels for electric guitar, bass and other unbalanced guitar level sources. With both channels having the ability to serve as an in-line signal booster, a DI, or one channel of each — the dBooster2 is ideal for miking low-volume sound sources, recording direct to a DAW interface, interfacing with long cable runs to maintain audio quality, or as a DI.