uncleswede
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Post title kind of says it all...
I was planning on multi-track recording a live show last night, feeding direct, mono signals to the recording set up from the FOH mixer inserts, but hit a snag....
I connected an unbalanced 14in jack/XLR cable loom to the FOH mixer inserts (not my mixer), inserting the jacks just to the first position so as to tap off the signals without disturbing the main outs, and then to a Tascam US-1800 unit USB'd to my laptop running Reaper v5
I could see signals hitting the Tascam channels as the stage crew were setting up/plugging in but then they had a peculiar problem with one of the two Aux Send channels having a lot of noise on it. They thought it was the monitor and swapped it out - noise still there. Various cable/power-lead/power socket changes later the noise remained.
It wasn't until I disconnected my loom from the mixer inserts that the noise vanished!
I have no idea what was causing the noise but it occurred to me that, even though I only want to tap off mono feeds from the mixer inserts, I might need to use balanced cables?
Anyone experienced the same issue and have a solution for me?
Many thanks
CD
I was planning on multi-track recording a live show last night, feeding direct, mono signals to the recording set up from the FOH mixer inserts, but hit a snag....
I connected an unbalanced 14in jack/XLR cable loom to the FOH mixer inserts (not my mixer), inserting the jacks just to the first position so as to tap off the signals without disturbing the main outs, and then to a Tascam US-1800 unit USB'd to my laptop running Reaper v5
I could see signals hitting the Tascam channels as the stage crew were setting up/plugging in but then they had a peculiar problem with one of the two Aux Send channels having a lot of noise on it. They thought it was the monitor and swapped it out - noise still there. Various cable/power-lead/power socket changes later the noise remained.
It wasn't until I disconnected my loom from the mixer inserts that the noise vanished!
I have no idea what was causing the noise but it occurred to me that, even though I only want to tap off mono feeds from the mixer inserts, I might need to use balanced cables?
Anyone experienced the same issue and have a solution for me?
Many thanks
CD