balanced mic

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Balanced audio uses three conductors to carry the audio signal. Two of the conductors carry negative and positive signals (audio is an AC signal), and the third is used for grounding. With an unbalanced signal, there are only two conductors. One carries positive, the carries negative and is also used for ground.

What's the best way to use good, balanced mics with Sony PCM-D50?

Stokestack 23 September 2011

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Hi all.

This has probably been beaten to death, but I started wading through a couple of the stickies and gave up.

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Send/return balanced mic signal to compressor

quesne 10 December 2008

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Hi Guys:

I have an Alesis 3630 compressor which -- based on how I am reading the documentation -- has two unbalanced channels which can be used separately or as the R-L sides of a stereo signal. I also have a PreSonus Firestudio Project.