I give up... TRS vs TS, Bal vs Unbal, LowZ vs HiZ2012-05-08T11:53:41+00:00Hello all.
I'm not a sound wizard by any means although I've been into this for a while, but I guess I never cared much for the theory.
Since I recently got a mixer (ZED10FX) to connect my mics and guitar, and now I;m thinking of connecting (just for kicks) the iPod/iPad, I started getting lost in the terminology and have spent countless hours trying to figure out things...
Well, now I understand that TSR = Stereo and TS = Mono (well not in the meaning of the acronym but put in practical words), so for instance a guitar cable is always TS (but I guess one could use TSR for impractical reasons).
Also I understand that Stereo from a 3.5mm jack is unbalanced vs Stereo from some other source that can be balanced.
So TSR and TS have nothing to do with being balanced or not.
I get that if I have an unbalanced signal and need to connect to a balanced input, I would require a DI box in the middle, or something like that in order to balance the unbalanced.
I don't get if the level of the signal (low as in mic, line as in iPod, high as in guitar) has anything to do with the balance.
So as you can see so far I think I might be mixing some terminology.
But mostly, it baffles me that my mixer says it has 4 mono channels (3,4 have Hi-Z input), but then in the manual it states those mono channels (each has a 1/4" input and XLR input, you take one over the other) have a TSR wiring? So it is weird, if they are mono how come they have TSR? Aren't they supposed to be TS? (The mixer also has a couple stereo channels but they have the usual RCA dual input and a 1/4 TSR).
Thanks for your time :)kpsychedelichttps://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=273497
The short version of all this is: if you can't handle it, don't bother trying. Just accept things and try not to worry about it. A low-Z mic is probably an active mic with an amp/buffer and phantom power. It probably uses a balanced cable. The engineers handle the engineering.
Your options are:
Be an engineer
Let the engineers engineer it
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