I played at the open mic session at TJs on Thursday.
What I noticed is that they have a box on the stage that feeds a snake. This box has only 3 pin (Cannon?) connectors on it. These are the connectors I usually associate with balanced lines. OK... so the mikes get plugged straight into this box. This I understand.
But the guitars... They have leads with a jack plug at one end and the 3-pin plug at the other. Jack plugs say "unbalanced" to me. So now they seem to have a cable that is unbalanced at one end and balanced at the other. Which of course is not actually so.
They also provide little Behringer pre-amp stomp boxes for people who turn up with guitars with pickups that have a low output signal. These sit between the guitar and the box that is the stage end of the snake. I don't use their pre-amp, but this also suggests to me that they're not running balanced lines into that on-stage box.
What is going on here? I asked their sound guy and he said that it's all balanced.
What I noticed is that they have a box on the stage that feeds a snake. This box has only 3 pin (Cannon?) connectors on it. These are the connectors I usually associate with balanced lines. OK... so the mikes get plugged straight into this box. This I understand.
But the guitars... They have leads with a jack plug at one end and the 3-pin plug at the other. Jack plugs say "unbalanced" to me. So now they seem to have a cable that is unbalanced at one end and balanced at the other. Which of course is not actually so.
They also provide little Behringer pre-amp stomp boxes for people who turn up with guitars with pickups that have a low output signal. These sit between the guitar and the box that is the stage end of the snake. I don't use their pre-amp, but this also suggests to me that they're not running balanced lines into that on-stage box.
What is going on here? I asked their sound guy and he said that it's all balanced.