strangeandbouncy
Well-known member
Hi,
I have recently started using more and more of my outboard as "inserts" with in Logic and Protools. Makes for lightening fast recall, and I often need to get 2 or 3 tracks up a day. I am also rarely making adjustments to bits of outboard for the same reason. Compromise, but best of both worlds, and an instant recall.
I have just made a studer/audiox 169-500 eq. It is amazing, but was giving me a 6dB loss as an insert in 'tools. Fine inserted before a channel of my desk. I have finally had a minute to myself to investigate, and I find that other bits of gear ALSO give me 6dB loss. SOme are unbalanced, but, get this, some AREN'T! To make matters worse, I balanced the input to my new eq with a shiny new Carnhill 10k:10k, and it STILL gives me a 6dB loss! I have checked and checked and checked again .What the f@@k? I am certain it is not the wiring. I have tried many different patchpoints to try to work out. All the same. Inserts that use our Apogee Rosetta send/rtn do NOT lose 6dB running into the same gear.
Help! can anyone suggest how to connect an unbalanced piece of gear so as NOT to get this loss? I even wired hot and cold to pins 1 and 3 of the input to lunchbox, which surely can't be shorting out one half of the balanced signal?
Tearing my hair out!
ANdyP
I have recently started using more and more of my outboard as "inserts" with in Logic and Protools. Makes for lightening fast recall, and I often need to get 2 or 3 tracks up a day. I am also rarely making adjustments to bits of outboard for the same reason. Compromise, but best of both worlds, and an instant recall.
I have just made a studer/audiox 169-500 eq. It is amazing, but was giving me a 6dB loss as an insert in 'tools. Fine inserted before a channel of my desk. I have finally had a minute to myself to investigate, and I find that other bits of gear ALSO give me 6dB loss. SOme are unbalanced, but, get this, some AREN'T! To make matters worse, I balanced the input to my new eq with a shiny new Carnhill 10k:10k, and it STILL gives me a 6dB loss! I have checked and checked and checked again .What the f@@k? I am certain it is not the wiring. I have tried many different patchpoints to try to work out. All the same. Inserts that use our Apogee Rosetta send/rtn do NOT lose 6dB running into the same gear.
Help! can anyone suggest how to connect an unbalanced piece of gear so as NOT to get this loss? I even wired hot and cold to pins 1 and 3 of the input to lunchbox, which surely can't be shorting out one half of the balanced signal?
Tearing my hair out!
ANdyP