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teletype1 · 28th November 2009

Audiop: i think you misunderstood me -- the outputs of an EarthWorks LAB 102 preamp are _unbalanced_ -- the 1024 is balanced. i was pretty shocked that the LAB 102's were unbalanced, apparently EarthWorks wanted to keep another analog stage out of the circuitry. *shrug*. i suppose we could run them into a direct box (

e).

anyway, we had two 102's driving the decca tree when i arrived here, i replaced them with the 1024 because the cable run after the preamp was upwards of 200 feet with nothing on the negative wire -- that fixed some of accumulated noise but i still don't like it -- thus, this thread

great suggestions so far guys -- pulling a 9-channel multicore snake was my first thought too, but i wanted to explore the long-distance digital thing. we do have direct coax lines (spec'd for video) so we could do MADI, which would be awesome... how much latency would be there though?

i agree that some of the noise may be from the EW mics... i want to get rid of them as soon as possible, even though the other faculty members here drool over them... i just don't like 'em.

28th November 2009	#16
teletype1 Gear interested Joined: Nov 2009 Location: Columbus, GA Posts: 12 Thread Starter	Audiop: i think you misunderstood me -- the outputs of an EarthWorks LAB 102 preamp are _unbalanced_ -- the 1024 is balanced. i was pretty shocked that the LAB 102's were unbalanced, apparently EarthWorks wanted to keep another analog stage out of the circuitry. shrug. i suppose we could run them into a direct box (e). anyway, we had two 102's driving the decca tree when i arrived here, i replaced them with the 1024 because the cable run after the preamp was upwards of 200 feet with nothing on the negative wire -- that fixed some of accumulated noise but i still don't like it -- thus, this thread great suggestions so far guys -- pulling a 9-channel multicore snake was my first thought too, but i wanted to explore the long-distance digital thing. we do have direct coax lines (spec'd for video) so we could do MADI, which would be awesome... how much latency would be there though? i agree that some of the noise may be from the EW mics... i want to get rid of them as soon as possible, even though the other faculty members here drool over them... i just don't like 'em.