From Tim Burgess Sent Mon, Dec 17th 2018, 20:56
From Tim Burgess Sent Mon, Dec 17th 2018, 20:56
Just double-checked my Voyager manual. Interesting find in as much as = the keyboard model uses unbalanced connections, but the RME (rack) = version has a switch to flip the outputs between unbalanced and = balanced. Best wishes. Tim Burgess -----Original Message----- From: xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx <xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>=20 Sent: 17 December 2018 20:57 To: 'Michael E Caloroso' <xxx.xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> Subject: RE: [AH] Re: Gear with balanced outputs Just double-checked my Voyager manual. Interesting find in as much as = the keyboard model uses unbalanced connections, but the RME (rack) = version has a switch to flip the outputs between unbalanced and = balanced. Best wishes. Tim Burgess -----Original Message----- From: Michael E Caloroso <xxx.xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>=20 Sent: 17 December 2018 01:48 To: xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx Subject: [AH] Re: Gear with balanced outputs Very very few synths have balanced outputs. Memorymoog and Polymoog are = the only two Moog synths I can think of. None of the Oberheims. JP8 had balanced XLR outputs, not many other Rolands. Hard pressed to = think of any Yamaha or Korg synths either. Note that XLR jacks do NOT automatically imply balanced I/O. Even some = pro audio gear - like the Drawmer DS201 dual gate - do NOT have balanced = I/O despite the XLR jacks. With the exception of the Chroma, all the = ARP keyboards had unbalanced outputs - even those with XLR jacks! Moogerfooger I/O are unbalanced. Frankly synth outputs are so hot that balanced output is not needed. Balanced outputs are best applied with really low level devices like = microphones and any instrument with magnetic pickups. What you REALLY need to pay attention to is all devices having the same = dB system. Mixing +4dBu and (-)10dBv devices is a PITA. I love using = the Korg SDD-3300 digital effects with my synths, but mixing a +4dBu synth with a (-)10dBv Korg SDD-3300 results in an input that is so hot that a slight nudge on the input control dramatically changes the = level, and (-)10dBv output that is too low for my +4dBu line mixer. I'm = about to modify the 3300 to +4dBu I/O levels. Sent from my iDifferentialOutputStage, MC