Yep, i think i'll stick to unbalanced for the sub-outs and balanced for the main outs. Thanks for your help guys, much appreciated.
btw. if you live in the uk, a good place to get cables from is www.vdctrading.com - they do good prices and make all their cables to order, so you can get whatever length and setup you like.
john.
-----Original Message-----
From: ezra_gold [mailto:ezra_gold@...]
Sent: 25 April 2002 18:30
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [xl7] Re: Balanced cables
I am sure that the sub outs are not balanced. The sub outs
are "insert" send returns. These have tip as hot, ring as return, and
sleeve as ground. Plugging a balanced cable from this into your mixer
could cause problems. The ring will proboably pick up whatever noise
is around and send that to both the input on the mixer and the main
outs on the xl-7. You may get lucky and not notice anything, but it
is not good parctice. For the sub outs either use an insert cable or
an unbalanced cable for best results.
--Ezra