Re: Balanced audio input on an audio recording interface

On Aug 30, 11:23 am, dar...@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I read that many connectors as the xlr itself are unbalaced and the
recording quality is lower than the balanced xlr.

Where did you read that? Esquire?

I'll connect a cardioid microphone, an acoustic guitar and a keyboard
(not via midi).
I think I'll do those links in different times.

You really need three different types of interface then. The
microphone, if it's anything civilized, will go into a mic preamp with
an XLR connector and that will almost surely be balanced. The keyboard
will probably go into a 1/4" phone jack at line level. Chances are
pretty good that the output of your keyboard is unbalanced and it will
be happy going into either a balanced or unbalanced input, but not the
same input as the microphone.

The guitar probably also wants an unbalanced 1/4" input, but at a much
higher impedance than the "line level" input to which you'll connect
your keyboard. Some modern mixers and mic preamps have a special
instrument input, but the most common way to connect an instrument
directly is to use a DI (Direct [Injection] Box) which converts its
high impedance output to a low impedance balanced output at mic level
so that you can connect the DI output to a mic input.


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