Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

Don't use a direct box. Most direct boxes will take a line-level input
and attenuate it to mic level. You WANT a high-level line input going
to the MOTM.

A balanced signal can drive an unbalanced input just fine, although you
might have some signal loss depending on the balanced output topology.
It should be minimal and not cause any problems though.

Ivan