PLAN B analog blog

Rragrding balanced outand and transformers:

There are several ways to create balanced separation,using a 
transofrmer being one of them - but yes, a costly one. I currently 
have a pair of Jensen Transformers inline to my synth outs and 
they're amazing.  Even though they're unbalanced, they totally 
killed non-signal related noise and hum while having no ill 
effects on amplitude or frequency range of the synth signals.  Try 
that with almost any other transformer and you're not going to 
have the same results, not even close.  It'll kill hum you my be 
experiencing, but your signal level will drop 30 dB and even more 
than that on the high end.  Jensen's are fairly small (cylindrical 
and about an inch in diameter), so they'd fit behind a eurorack 
format module, but... they're $70 each!  OUCH.

Conversely, while at M&K I became aware of some other 
methods which don't require transformers and are mere 
pennies by comparison , and the Output Processor is going to 
go this route.

- P