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beesting · 8th August 2006

gday

i want to route my Akai MPC4000 through a Neve pre-amp prior to the A/D conversion to give it a bit of colour. The Akai MPC4000 has balanced outputs.

Is it OK to run the MPC4000 balanced outputs into the Avalon U5 Hi-Z instrument inputs? then route the MIC level output from the U5's into the Neve 1073 DPA preamp? i know it works but are there any issues with running balanced lines into an unbalanced Hi-Z instrument input (using run of the mill balanced leads)? just want to double check

i dont want to go through the line input of the Neve preamp as i want the extra colour with the additional transformer stage.

Akai MPC4000 > Avalon U5's (MIC level) > (MIC level) Neve 1073 DPA > Apogee Rosetta 800

thanks

8th August 2006	#1
beesting Gear nut Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 147 Thread Starter	balanced signal through Avalon U5 Hi-Z input to bring down to MIC level signal gday i want to route my Akai MPC4000 through a Neve pre-amp prior to the A/D conversion to give it a bit of colour. The Akai MPC4000 has balanced outputs. Is it OK to run the MPC4000 balanced outputs into the Avalon U5 Hi-Z instrument inputs? then route the MIC level output from the U5's into the Neve 1073 DPA preamp? i know it works but are there any issues with running balanced lines into an unbalanced Hi-Z instrument input (using run of the mill balanced leads)? just want to double check i dont want to go through the line input of the Neve preamp as i want the extra colour with the additional transformer stage. Akai MPC4000 > Avalon U5's (MIC level) > (MIC level) Neve 1073 DPA > Apogee Rosetta 800 thanks