patchbay and balanced signal path
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Posted on Feb 19, 2005 02:39 am
drake
Member Since: Apr 13, 2004
i'm investing in a patchbay so i can regain those hours of my life spent untangling cables in dark corners to reroute my outbaord gear. if everything in the signal from preamp through all gear to mixer is balanced cable, but then i send the final signal to the direct outs on my mixer (unbalanced) into my delta 1010, will that make the whole signal unbalanced? if so, why did stupid behringer make there direct outs unbalanced?!?!
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Feb 19, 2005 12:32 pm dude i've got a used patchbay that i cannot find no literature about!! i have no idea if it's balanced or not, patch bays are mystical creatures to me.....normaled, half-normaled i decided to say **** it, i'm gettin' one anyway! lol
peace
wyd
pjkPrince CZAR-mingMember
Since: Apr 08, 2004
Feb 20, 2005 09:50 pm Each step of cable can collect interference noise. If a section of connections is balanced, then it will reject any interference noise that has been introduced ONLY IN THAT SECTION. I'd think the most important place for balanced cables would be in the beginning, where the signal is the smallest and introduced noise would be the most noticeable.
I'd say the end of the signal chain would be the smallest amount of worry, as the signal is at it's biggest and fattest. If your runs are short, and clear of any interference introducing agents (power wire, speaker wire, flourescents, dimmers, neon, mice, etc) than I don't think you'd hear any difference between balanced and unbalanced (though a purist might disagree =).
