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Mike Rivers wrote:
In article et writes: If one of the inputs being multed to is unbalanced, then it's likely to be grounding pin 2 or 3 (tip or sleeve), making the signal unbalanced at all points. When you qualify this with Pin 2 OR Pin 3 (tip OR ring [not sleeve, which nearly always corresponds to Pin 1]) then you open up another can of worms with miswired or strangely wired cables. Woops....I meant "Tip and _Ring_. Thanks, Mike. " If you put a TS plug into a TRS jack, which I'm guessing would be the case with "multing" on a balanced patchbay), you tie the ring and sleeve together with the plug body, which grounds Pin 3 (if there really is a Pin 3). If you had something miswired, and the hot lead went to the ring rather than the tip of the patchbay jack, best case you'd have a polarity inversion, worst case - if the output had no signal on the "cold" lead - you'd get no signal on the unbalanced "mult." So, still, it depends on what's what, what the output and input configurations are, and whether the job's done as right as it can be. But if the question boils down to "Will a balanced connection seriously degrade my audio?", the general answer to that, in the case of normal studio-length wiring, is no. But there are always things that could go wrong, and you know what they say about Murphy's law. -- I'm really Mike Rivers ) However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over, lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo |
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