On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 12:09 -0500, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: > On 08/26/2012 02:24 AM, david wrote: > > Thanks, Simon and Harry. I sent the message off, then a while later > > thought, "Bet I'll just have to combine the stereo to a mono and put > > that into a standard DI." > > > > I'd love to use 2 XLRs, but we don't have enough channels on our snake > > anymore (combination of some added singers and one non-working line in > > the snake). > > One way that comes to mind is to convert the stereo signal to digital > and send the digital signal over the balanced pair. This might be an > overly-complex approach -- so it depends on how much you /really/ want > to preserve the stereo signal. :-) > > One chain I can think of is: > > Analog[Stereo] --> S/PDIF(unbalanced) --> AES(balanced XLR) > --> S/PDIF(unbalanced) --> Analog[Stereo] > > There's several $40 devices out ther for the analog/spdif conversion. > The spdif to AES conversion could probably be done with a couple of Hosa > CDL-313 boxes (about $80). (But I'm new to SPDIF and AES so I might be > missing something.) > > A cheaper way that *might* work to send S/PDIF over XLR is to run the > S/PDIF signal through a couple DI's. Since the S/PDIF signal is pretty > resistant to noise -- I think this is pretty likely to work. > > -gabriel Wouldn't this cause cross-talk? "Received" digital noise by the analog cables, that are parallel to the digital cable? _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
