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It's really the cable that's balanced. Imagine a long cable transmitting a weak signal (for example, a very low voltage signal from a microphone). As the signal travels down the cable, ambient noise might distort the signal. In a balanced cable, instead of just transmitting the signal by itself, you transmit both the signal and its opposite along two ...

This topic is commonly misunderstood, and Joel's answer isn't quite correct. Transmitting "both the signal and its opposite along two wires" is called differential signaling. This is used to minimize emissions from a cable into other circuitry, because the equal and opposite electric and magnetic fields cancel out at a distance from the wire. A "balanced ...

The answer is: it depends. It depends on how much RF noise is in the environment you're running the cable through and it depends on how strong the signal is you're sending along that cable relative to the noise in the environment. It's not typical that you've got a choice of outputs on a device between balanced and unbalanced but, given a choice, I'll ...

It's an interconnect method that lets you transmit signals over very long lengths of wire without having large amounts of extraneous noise injected in to the signal. The signal is duplicated on to two wires and the input impedance at the received is the carefully matched for both signals. This insures that noise injected during the journey is done so in ...

XLR connectors have a lock, so they are less likely to be unplugged by accident. Also, when connecting or disconnecting them, they are less likely to cause short circuit or produce noise because of their design (the TRS design may cause that). In general, the connector is more robust. In your scenario, check if your monitors and interface support balanced ...

It depends on a lot of things! 1) What else is going on? How many other cables are in the vicinity of your cable? The more other cables you have in the area, the more likely there is to be interference. 2) How thick and well-shielded is the cable? A consumer, high-gauge, thin little bit of zip wire is much more susceptible to interference than thick, ...

A balanced mic would certainly help. Another option is to use a direct box to go from an unbalanced mic input to a balanced line (XLR). The best bet would really be to get an actual mic with balanced output. Also, in a pinch, a 25 foot run is totally doable with an unbalanced cable if it is well shielded. It isn't ideal, but it should be workable as long ...

You can use a direct box to change the unbalanced signal to a balanced signal. You would plug your bass into the box and then plug the output of the box into a mixer. There are two types; active and passive. The passive box simply translates the signal and may have a switch to eliminate ground loops (thus removing the buzzing sound ). The active box ...

One point needs to be explicitly made. You can't convert an unbalanced signal to a balanced signal with just a cable. Even if you had the right adapter, one that correctly matches the connectors, this does not magically create a balanced signal. For that you do need a direct box (DI), or some sort of transformer. Another way to say this: you must ...

There are couple of ways to do this but both are post production treatments. If this was mine, I would simply take the .wav files from the device to my computer and load them on the Vegas timeline and adjust the balance there. If you don't have Vegas, there is a free audio recording software called "Audacity." http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ ...

To get adequate performance, you must use a differential amplifier and receiver to reject the electromagnetic noise that the UTP will pick up from the surrounding environment. This is what audio mixers use to reject hum from microphone cables. In order for this to work, you would need a circuit at the transmitting end that transmits the audio signal on ...

You can go as long as it doesn't start interfering with your sound. The truth of the matter is that guitar rigs with a lot of pedals in them will eventually end up with a lot of cable-feet. Especially if you're using a 20'+ cable in or out, unless you have your pedals arranged in series and connected with a bunch of 6" patch cables, you're going to end up ...