'Making iron work' & controlling it

[clintrubber]

W.r.t. 'making iron work', what do you all do to get this going and in a controlled fashion ?

Thinking of output-TX secondaries that could easily overdrive DAW-inputs I figure it's nice to have some drive-control before the output-TX (it's usually already present as the mic-pre gain), then on to the linedriver-&-TX and then a simple passive volume control & then to the DAW-input.

What do you use ? How do you control the amount of pushing ?

(BTW, I figure the route as previously mentioned here of using a clean clean clean micpre and treating with iron after the recording has taken place would give the most control, but that'll be sidetracking the thing above too much).

Peter

 

[Kev]

What do you use ? How do you control the amount of pushing ?

What do you use ... or what do I use ??


600 ohm resistor then , as you said, use a " ...simple passive volume control & then to the DAW-input. "

Use a line pad

Use another trafo and a simple passive volume control

 

[clintrubber]

Thanks - this all sounds straightforward. No need for making things complicated here Peter.

Coming from a TX-secondary it will work OK when driving unbalanced inputs (single pot) and as I understood it here before that 'unbalanced' pot would even be OK in a balanced-to-balanced connection.

Peter

 

[Kev]

[quote author="clintrubber"]... and as I understood it here before that 'unbalanced' pot would even be OK in a balanced-to-balanced connection.[/quote]

simple answer ... yes

When interfacing equipment always look for the simpole solution. Having open ended sets of wired for random connecting to find out what works and is quiet is fine and is a good test to verify what you have seen in the instruction book.

A rats nest pot and connectors to set the level ... then remove and measure the pot to make a pre-set resistor divider is OK.

Trial and error is OK in my book
maths and formulas and then confirm with the real thing is cool too.


it's all good ... :thumb:

 

[clintrubber]

from Kev:

Trial and error is OK in my book
maths and formulas and then confirm with the real thing is cool too.

it's all good ...

Sounds like the best route :thumb:

Despite using unbalanced attenuators on balanced outs and being good enough, I realized I could also use a floating stereo pot (as a 'U'-pad) to keep the attenuating topology symmetrical- - fwiw that is...

Bye,

Peter