Unofficial Mackie User Forums > DL1608/DL806/DL32R/ProDX Mixers

Output from DL1608 - mono left or y cable?

(1/4) > >>

backbonerocks:
i just got the dl1608 and haven't even tried it out yet at a gig. i have an rta and eq i'm goin to run thru from the mixer to some powered subs  and tops. should i just run from the left side or i thought about gettin a xlr y cable? any one else have this come up.. if so, what did you end up doin.. any suggestions? i'm leanin towards gettin a y cable.. thanks, mark

RoadRanger:
It's a bad idea to use a "Y" cable to short together two outputs - just use one of the outputs.

Fluddman:
+1 on not using a Y cable.

Also curious why you'd bother with an external eq as the DL has GEQ and PEQ on all the outputs.

Cheers

Wynnd:
Especially being that you have a RTA to flatten the output using the 31 band EQ on any output.  Also with subs and mains, you can use the HPF and LPF on the Aux and Mains.  (Or two Auxes.)  As others have reminded users, remember to check and see what output you're looking at.  (Easy to be looking at the wrong one.  The color coding helps, but with 7 different outputs, the colors are close to each other.) 

sam.spoons:
+1 more for not using y cables to sum outputs (TBH, I'm not sure you can buy one with 2 x XLRF and one XLRM). Y cables work well to feed two inputs from one output (two amp channels from a single aux, two mic inputs, live desk and DAW from one mic etc) but you need some way of isolating one output from the other if you sum outputs or you are driving one output with the other, not what they were designed for and potentially damaging.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page