dobster wrote on Thu, 12 April 2007 12:21 |
thanks andy. a certain somebody called me "nuts" for this idea and said it would sound bad through DI. so i called him nuts right back lol
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It's the standard way of doing it.
a) you can lift a ground to prevent buzzes,
b) balanced lines through the snake are your friends,
c) impedance matching prevents the console mic input (which is what the snake is usually patched into) from loading down the CD player outputs (and consumer CD players usually have a higher-than-you'd-expect output impedance),
d) voltage step-down in the DI transformer (a function of the transformation, if you will) helps match the CD player's output level to the mic input so you don't overload.
-a