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1st February 2007
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| Gear maniac  Joined: Sep 2004 Location: New York, New York
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Thread Starter | Best way to sum 2-ch to mono
Are there any 2-ch balanced sum to mono boxes out there?
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1st February 2007
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| Lives for gear Joined: Feb 2006
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With modern hi-z gear you can probably sum two devices with a Y-cable or patchbay. My Radial JDI boxes can sum two channels to mono - but that's two unbalanced channels into 1 balanced.
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1st February 2007
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| Gear maniac Joined: Sep 2004 Location: New York, New York
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Yeah, I'm looking to take the balanced output of two Mic-pres to a balanced mono... ? wait a minute...can I just use a splitter in reverse ???
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1st February 2007
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The existence of this product makes me thing that there's something more to it than just using a Y-cable in reverse if you want to do it "right"...but I seem to recall reading that all you need to do is throw a couple resistors in there and you're basically good...I'm sure someone who knows more than I will chime in soon. -Duardo |
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1st February 2007
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Yeah - a nice passive transformer box like that would be ideal. But as I understand it, as long as the input impedance of the next stage is higher than the output impedance of the preceding stage, you should be good. Multing two preamp outputs with a splitter would alter this impedance matching. I'm not exactly sure in which direction - but if the input of the next stage is high enough impedance, I doubt it would be an issue. When I was much younger and poorer, i used to mult several midi devices together with Y adapters and got away with it. Come to think of it - the affordable line level mixers back then were so shyte, this probably was superior. |
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1st February 2007
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| Gear maniac Joined: Sep 2004 Location: New York, New York
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449.00 ouch I like that though... Would'nt that be a 4x2 not a 2x2 ? (hmm, now add a cross-over) lol |
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3rd February 2007
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| Gear interested Joined: Jun 2006 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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