When you add gain, you add everything - noise included. It is better to add gain before your converter. What is your noise level with the gain set to 0 in SFP?
The cable looks pretty cheap to me. Convenient, but cheap.
Yeah.. looks like cheap quality.. but I'd like a cable like that, with no compromise on quality... preferrably.. any suggestions?
my noise level is -80db when gain is set to 0, but I had the impression from the Alesis Ai3 ADAT interface manual, that I was supposed to get -100db.. I might be mistaken though..
This will probably make your noise level worse. These cables are all unbalanced, thus sensible to EM interference pickup and, since they're all parallel and as close together as can be, if one picks up that kind of noise, all the others will too.
If you can't use good balanced cables in your setup, you might want to take the time to do a search in the articles on the <a href=”http://www.sospubs.co.uk”>Sound On Sound</a> website. They have some good ones on wiring and grounding schemes.
BTW, these are Hosa cables, right?
RedSun .:.
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those hosa cables are o.k..better would be a higher quality cable w/ soldered ends such as mogami or canare or monster.you may have to make the snake yourself or custom order it.the extra expense is probably not justified,but if you have the money...........
The thing with collecting all the cables in a snake, is that if you twist them correctly, they will not have any effect on each other, this is why most cables have the positive and negative cable twisted around each other..
I only need one, so I can probably justify getting a Monster in a snake (haha I made a funny)..
yeah, like one of those Aussie watersnakes
but this has 8 legs, to me it looks more like a spider, Black Widow cable
the colors of my racing bicycle btw