Hello,
I am going to buy another Pulsar 2 card and take advantage of this "loyalty offer."
I hope this doesn't qualify as a stupid question, but what is the difference between Balanced and Unbalanced I/O s please.
Excuse my ignorance. I know it is a basic question, but one I don't know the answer to.
Thanks In advance for your response(s)
Balanced or Unbalanced?
Unbalanced = signal and ground.
Balanced = 2 x signal (out of phase with each other to reject noise) and ground.
Balanced is commonly used for it's ability to reject noise over long cable lengths and noisy environments.
Un-balanced cables kept as short as possible and carefully run (i.e. away from and not parallel to A.C. power cables) are perfectly adequate.
Balanced is normally at pro audio +4db line level whereas Un-balanced is normally at consumer -10db line level.
In my case I have the unbalanced version of pulsar simply because I only use the onboard audio inputs/outputs for monitoring. All audio comes in via adat from an external mixer which is balanced and at +4db.
Go here for good info:-
http://www.rane.com/note110.html
And here for more topics.
http://www.rane.com/library.html
Balanced = 2 x signal (out of phase with each other to reject noise) and ground.
Balanced is commonly used for it's ability to reject noise over long cable lengths and noisy environments.
Un-balanced cables kept as short as possible and carefully run (i.e. away from and not parallel to A.C. power cables) are perfectly adequate.
Balanced is normally at pro audio +4db line level whereas Un-balanced is normally at consumer -10db line level.
In my case I have the unbalanced version of pulsar simply because I only use the onboard audio inputs/outputs for monitoring. All audio comes in via adat from an external mixer which is balanced and at +4db.
Go here for good info:-
http://www.rane.com/note110.html
And here for more topics.
http://www.rane.com/library.html
