Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

previous by date index next by date
previous in topic topic list next in topic

Subject: RE: [motm] Re: How to connect balanced signals to the MOTM

From: "Wheaton, Simon" <simon.wheaton@...>
Date: 2006-03-29

Re: [motm] Re: How to connect balanced signals to the MOTM
Sorry, but you are wrong!
 
DI boxes take an instrument level signal and turn it into a mic level signal. They do not amplify a signal to line level (usually, some newer DIs do have a line level output as well)
 
They were originally designed to send instrument level signals from stage, through the multicore, and into the mic channels of the mixing desk, so that the instrument level signal appears at the input of the mixer as if it was a mic input.
 
They do not amplify the signal.
 
It is usual for the XLR out of a DI to be mic level, and if not then it is usually has a second output marked as line level.
 
Simon
Canberra
AUSTRALIA
From: motm@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Jonathan Snipes
Sent: Thu 3/30/2006 6:46 AM
On Mar 29, 2006, at 12:36 PM, ivancu@... wrote:
> 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.

I'm sorry to chime in, but this just isn't true.  DI boxes take an 
unbalanced signal and AMPLIFY it to a balanced line-level signal.  
Useful when you're plugging an unbalanced instrument in on-stage, 
then running in 200 feet back to the console, and don't want to add 
ground hum & lose signal.

Just because there's an XLR output from a DI Box, doesn't mean that 
it's mic-level.
 

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

This email, and any attachments, may be confidential and also privileged.

If you are not the intended recipient:

Please notify the sender and delete all copies of this transmission along with any attachments immediately.

You should not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------