Jan 16, 2006 05:57 pm Wow, I've never heard of a BNC T cable. Where did you find it?
I would go Firewire out to, 8 channel preamp in, 8 channel preamp out, to dual preamp in.
No ideas about the T cable sorry.
Word clock cable question.
Posted on Jan 16, 2006 01:32 pm
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Is it possible to use a BNC fem-male-fem "T" to effectively split my wordclock signal coming from my firewire interface going to both my Dual and eight channel pre-amps?
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Jan 16, 2006 05:57 pm Wow, I've never heard of a BNC T cable. Where did you find it?
I would go Firewire out to, 8 channel preamp in, 8 channel preamp out, to dual preamp in.
No ideas about the T cable sorry.
Jan 16, 2006 08:17 pm The signal may be too low at the receivers, but then again, it may work. I don't know if prosumer gear has high enough signal levels in the digital world. I think radio shack may sell the T splitters, but I'm not sure of that either. Give it a try and let us know if it works. If not, cs has it right, just hook them in series.
Jan 16, 2006 08:43 pm < partial thread-jack alert >
Isn't the BNC T what you used to have to use for some coax type network? a daisy chain type thing, running 2 mbps.
If you had one machine flaky, the whole ring would go flaky. Crappy system, but worked at the time, I guess.
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Jan 16, 2006 08:59 pm I dont think I have ever seen it done. But it could possibly be OK. I dont see that it would degrade the signal that much unless you are talking a long run of cable.
But for wordclock I usually do as CS suggested and daisy chain the processors together. Out from the master, in then out the first slave, then repeat if necassary.
Jan 16, 2006 10:11 pm I saw one of the recomended setups on the appogee webpage that had a T in it. Of course that is top of the line stuff. Not sure if it would work in my case but the T is only 5 dollars so I may try it anyways. No big loss if it doesn't work. Thanks guys.
The only problem with daisy chaining is that my focusrite and ART both do not have BNC outputs. Kind of lame i know but that is what I'm faced with.
Jan 16, 2006 10:57 pm Yep, no loss really. And if it was on the Appogee site then it must be OK to do it that way.
Jan 17, 2006 12:54 am A couple of notes regarding BNC cable. Its an acronym for British Navel Cable. This is what was used ages ago as network cable. It is a coax cable. It must be properly terminated to work. IOW's if you remove one piece of the equipment you must terminate it with a terminator cap. You can't just leave a part of the cable unplugged.
Jan 17, 2006 01:15 am Cool. Thanks for the info beerhunter.
Jan 17, 2006 07:08 am Yeah we use the stuff at the nuke plant for our feildbus network in our reactor feedwater level control system and there are terminators at each end of the cable where there is no device used. In my case though all connections would terminated. T to octopre and cable end to Art. I'm gonna try it but I have to wait till I get my new digital card for the octopre. The first one fell to pieces on me during installation.
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