Balanced To Unbalanced, technical studio hardware Options

[lol Williams]

Can you help me

I have just bought an Akai mfc 42 filter I want to run the outs of my pro tools 888 into it!Both pieces are on my patch bay.
There is no mention if the inputs on the akai are Unbalanced or Balanced im assuming they are the Aforementioned,on the web site it says they accept Max of 16 db does that mean i can go in balanced!

My original plan was to unbalance one end of some balanced patch cables,which from what ive read will work however i need to know if the outputs on my 888 are fully floating?I dont have a clue what that means!Anyway maybe someone could help me and give us a tip on how to do these patch leads too?

Thanks

Lol

[micahg]

Just a heads up on a more accurate definition of balanced vs. unbalanced connections.

A Balanced connection does not include an additional 'ground' as previously stated. A ground is found in any cable as it serves as a reference voltage for the signal. The third pin of a balanced connection is a copy of the audio signal, but opposite in polarity from the original. When these two signals reach the input device a component does a process called 'common mode rejection'. Through this process discards any similarities between the two signals. Being opposite polarity the original signal is maintained and any interference picked up along the cable is rejected.

That is a balanced cable, and a balanced connection. Connecting a balanced to an unbalanced device will obviously only see one of the audio sources (not the one of opposite polarity) and the ground and therefore the compatability is preserved, though some signal level is lossed.

Hope that helps out a bit. If you remember what a balanced connection actually contains, you will see the effects of combining two different systems.

Ce message a été modifié par micahg - mer. 2 juin 2004, 18:35.