Post by thecolourfulway on May 4, 2021 12:03:47 GMT -6
I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to certain principles in electronics...I have a basic understanding of impedance but can’t figure out an issue I’m encountering, or if impedance is indeed even the problem.
My 2 track mix down deck has a split on the output and goes to two places - 1. control room monitor 2. my patchbay.
Under normal conditions everything works fine, but here’s where it gets weird, when I patch the output of the 2 track into certain gear via the patchbay....the sound in the monitor path changes dramatically, loses maybe about 1-3db and loses some top end openness. Some of my gear causes no change or a less dramatic change. I’m not talking about a change heard after passing through gear, but that the split signal which goes direct to the monitors is changing when I patch the other end of the split into something. This makes me think certain gear is loading the output incorrectly, wondering how I can troubleshoot that and what the solution might be when I need to patch into the gear that is causing the issue.
Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions you wizards!
My 2 track mix down deck has a split on the output and goes to two places - 1. control room monitor 2. my patchbay.
Under normal conditions everything works fine, but here’s where it gets weird, when I patch the output of the 2 track into certain gear via the patchbay....the sound in the monitor path changes dramatically, loses maybe about 1-3db and loses some top end openness. Some of my gear causes no change or a less dramatic change. I’m not talking about a change heard after passing through gear, but that the split signal which goes direct to the monitors is changing when I patch the other end of the split into something. This makes me think certain gear is loading the output incorrectly, wondering how I can troubleshoot that and what the solution might be when I need to patch into the gear that is causing the issue.
Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions you wizards!
