innovine Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Is there a quality difference between the phones out, and the 1/4" jacks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_Watt Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Very different levels. Phones out is designed to drive headphones. 1/4 jacks are higher impedance either instrument or line level outputs. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innovine Posted January 31, 2014 Author Share Posted January 31, 2014 Yeah but I'm running both into my mixer/soundcard and I can adjust the receiving channel preamp gain, so I'm not too concerned about the level. Do they sound the same? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverhead Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 There's no quality difference, just the level difference mentioned above. But that doesn't mean you will hear the same tone because headphones have different tone-colouring characteristics than what ever you are connecting the 1/4" outputs to. The tones/sound your ears hear will be quite different, and that's got nothing to do with the signal output quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innovine Posted January 31, 2014 Author Share Posted January 31, 2014 That might be it. Is there a simple way to split the output signal? I'm looking for two stereo outs, one to the mixer, one to my soundcard for recording. Currently I'm using the phones output. Would Y cables work better? I must confess to not understanding input and output impedance as much as I should. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinDorr Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 I am sure you are aware of using USB and stay in digital domain. What makes yo prefer to use analog in on the sound? Just curious? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innovine Posted February 1, 2014 Author Share Posted February 1, 2014 reamping. plus my soundcard has 8 ins. i record other stuff too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jandrio Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 That might be it. Is there a simple way to split the output signal? I'm looking for two stereo outs, one to the mixer, one to my soundcard for recording. Currently I'm using the phones output. Would Y cables work better? I must confess to not understanding input and output impedance as much as I should. There are articles out there recommending not to use y-cables, claiming that "a wye-connector used to mix two signals into one is being abused and may even damage the equipment involved". Check out this one: http://www.rane.com/note109.html op download the pdf: http://www.rane.com/...Why_Not_Wye.pdf Why don't u feed your soundcard through the mixer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innovine Posted February 3, 2014 Author Share Posted February 3, 2014 It adds a little latency, extra dac/adc step, but mostly becapse I also run my setup without the computer turned on. In such a situation my soundcard passes the clean guitar straight through to the pod and I get the master out into the mixer, then to speakers (or to my dt25) if I connect the line6 link). so it's a pick-up-and-go situation. But if I turn the computer on, the clean signal goes to my daw where I can record it. And its here I also want a copy of the pod master. I could send from the mixer but I'm already using the sends and group so its not ideal. Running a copy of the pod master out into the soundcard would do the trick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innovine Posted February 3, 2014 Author Share Posted February 3, 2014 Also, that article was about summing signals, which is not what I'm talking about 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jandrio Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 "Cable-wise" splitting is the oposite of summing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innovine Posted February 4, 2014 Author Share Posted February 4, 2014 Then it can only do good :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jandrio Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Or bad? (opposite of good) :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbagchee Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Can't you just run out of the stereo 1/4" outputs and the stereo XLR outputs? Or do you not have cables for those? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innovine Posted February 5, 2014 Author Share Posted February 5, 2014 Hmm, to be honest I'd sort of forgotten about them when I discovered they were mic level, but i do have inputs with preamps available so I guess I could check it out again. Thanks for the reminder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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