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What happens when you run a balanced signal in to an unbalanced input? Such as an effects unit.
Track Rat
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Nothing (well, nothing bad). Most devices that are balanced won't care if you plug in an unbalanced line. A bigger issue would be making sure level wise that two devices are matched (-10 vs +4).
Blue Bear Sound
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The one thing that will occur is a 6dB drop in signal level......
Son of Mixerman
Mix Junior
unless you find a switch for the +4 to -10 conversion on the efx unit.
If you running balanced +4 into an unbalanced -10 FX unit your likely to overdrive the input unless there is an attenuator on the input. Ive got lots of +4 unbalanced lines and forgot and recently fried an FX unit. Doh!
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SoMm
If you running balanced +4 into an unbalanced -10 FX unit your likely to overdrive the input unless there is an attenuator on the input. Ive got lots of +4 unbalanced lines and forgot and recently fried an FX unit. Doh!
4 possible answers hanging on the words "it depends"
SoMm
Blue Bear Sound
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Yes - gain mismatch is a definite concern, but I was talking about the 6dB drop in level by "brute force" unbalancing a balanced signal via cutting-off one conductor...
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Yes they are both +4 but the fx sends on my mixing board are balanced but some of my fx are not. I was just wondering if this was ok as I just realized I have never come across this situation before.