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Originally Posted by antilog  It looks like the 12AY7 preamp may not have an insert jack, which would help. According to the product page, EHX is claiming that shorting the ring to the sleeve should work (using a TS cable in the balanced TRS jack of the 12AY7), but if it is not working for you, you options are to get a different preamp, don't use the RNC on the 12AY7, or use some sort of adapter/transformer to balance the signal |
you meant to say unbalance the signal. Keep in mind the troublemaker here is the RNC which is unbalanced.
RNC acknowledges this
this is from their website:
Why is the RNC unbalanced instead of balanced?
You'd think the answer to this one would be a simple "to keep costs down". Although that's one of the reasons, there's another reason that's less obvious and the primary one: we designed the RNC to be used in home studios (like ours) made up primarily of unbalanced pieces. So, we designed it to easily interface to equipment usually found in the intended environment. For example, many home studios use mixing boards that have single Tip-Ring-Sleeve insert points on their input channels. We thought that it'd be neat, convenient and show unambiguous support for this studio type by allowing the RNC to be hooked directly to these inserts with single TRS cables. If the I/Os were balanced, we wouldn't be able to do that.
They're the ones who talk about the need to make the cables I described. This is from their website:
Connecting the RNC to balanced (XLR) equipment
Here are the cable connections necessary to hook up the RNC to balanced equipment that uses XLR connectors. (click on link below to see image provided by RNC)