On 9 Mar 2006 18:42:17 -0800, "amble" wrote:

Scott, Mike, Walt, thanks for your help!

-Mike could you just clarify one thing for me--

At the other end of the cable, where it's plugged into
something that's unbalanced, connect the white wire to the tip and both
the black wire and shield.

let me make sure i understand--at the unbalanced side, if you are using
a TS connector, you connect the black wire and shield to the sleeve?

For balanced outs feeding unbalanced ins, I'd connect the white to tip
shield to shield and float the black wire altogether. If you tie the
black and shield together you are shorting out the minus side of any
balanced outputs and that is not always a good thing.

Also just to disagree with everyone else who's weighed in, I am not
opposed to breaking grounds at the patch bay. I've seen it work
really well in some studios.

Julian