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  Line or mic 1/4 or xlr

  Posted by Jeff Mack on May 28, 2008 at 6:45 pm

  I have a couple of senn 112 G-2’s mounted in a travel rack with my digi 003R. Should I use the 1/4 inch outs to tracks 5 -6 or go with XLR into 1-2? I don’t know the difference of the line in vs. mic in. I assume coming out of a preamp, I could go 1/4 to line but why do they have the xlr on the receiver unit?

  Thanks for the newby question.
  Jeff

  Ty Ford replied 17 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Ty Ford

  May 28, 2008 at 9:15 pm

  Hello Jeff and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

  Based on what’s in your manual — Providing it’s correct,
  Audio output level (balanced) XLR: +18 dBu max
  Audio output level (unbalanced) Jack: +12 dBu max

  It looks like the 1/4″ jack is unbalanced. I’d go with the balanced XLR output to your 003 line level input.
  So you need a female XLR to Male 1/4″ TRS cable.

  Regards,

  Ty Ford

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