
moskus
The Creator of Æ, Ø and Å
Can you get a stereo, balanced plug?
AlChuck said:Turns out I was wrong, I have a TRS plug in one of my aux sends on the Behringer (Eurorack 1604A) going to the inputs of my old Alesis Quadraverb (which I hooked up to hear 'verb on the monitored inputs while tracking, but since doing that I've never used it). So I'm getting two copies of the same mono signal out of that jack.
But mixsit, there are such things as as stereo jacks, and they are very common. The headphone jacks on mixers, Walkmen, stereos -- almost anything -- are single stereo jacks that take a stero plug. The acronym TRS means tip-ring-sleeve, meaning that there are three separate connections on the plug. TRS plugs and jacks are also used as mono balanced connections -- in this application two copies of the same signal are sent out, one out of phase with the other. In this manner any additional noise that gets picked up by the cables gets cancelled out when the two signals are received and flipped around.