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[beefjerkey]

Hi there i jusat got a soundcraft 760 24 track, and when i get it all hooked up to my patch bays, it only passes a low leval of sound. but when i pull the patch cable out a little i get full power sound. what could this be.
everything is ballanced, and i have 3 wierd snakes that are some soundcraft elco to female and male xlr that i have hooked to my patch bay with a bunch of hosa xlr to 1/4" trs snakes.
I'm lost and lossing it. thanks Ryan

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

Balanced/unbalanced cable mismatch.... if your gear is unbalanced, try using unbalanced cable all thru your chain.

 

[Kevin Deschwazi]

Balanced/unbalanced cable mismatch.... if your gear is unbalanced, try using unbalanced cable all thru your chain.

Mr Bear, would there be an issue going from unbalanced outs of a soundcard to balanced ins on powered monitors?

I'm asking on behalf of this fella who seems to be having problems.

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

It really depends on how the balanced connection deals with the unbalanced input.... on my Lucid AD9624, for example, I can't feed it an unbalanced signal directly, but via the patchbay it works...

A lot of gear also has electronically balanced inputs, so it handles both types much more easily.

Try it - if it works, you're good to go!!

 

[Kevin Deschwazi]

Much appreciated. like I said it's an issue that's arisen out of another thread but I'll direct the fella here.

Edit: sorry to hijack your thread Mr Jerkey