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Re: Can you use balanced cables for unbalanced inputs? it should work fine. basically, you are just using the ground and the positive in the cable and ditching the inverted signal.
- Can you use balanced cable unbalanced input?
- What is the advantage of balanced cables over unbalanced cables?
- Is an insert cable balanced or unbalanced?
Can you use balanced cable unbalanced input?
Even if you plug a balanced cable into an unbalanced output jack, the signal will be unbalanced (see the downsides of unbalanced above). ... In many cases, interconnecting a balanced output to an unbalanced input will work just fine - your signal will be unbalanced.
What is the advantage of balanced cables over unbalanced cables?
Tech specs. Aside from these exceptions, balanced cables are a huge improvement over unbalanced. They have better signal-to-noise ratio, much lower impedance signals, and almost no external noise or distortion.
Is an insert cable balanced or unbalanced?
Inserts can be balanced or unbalanced. Typically, higher-end mixers will have balanced inserts and entry level mixers will have unbalanced inserts. Balanced inserts appear as a pair of jacks, one serving as the send (out from the mixer) and the other serving as the return (back to the mixer.)
