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As JL said, no noise at all. Working on setting up a limiter preset to use 10:1, fast attack, etc. Bill, you put some recommendations on a thread somewhere on what you would use.Sent from my SM-N900V using Tapatalk
Quote from: Harpman on December 31, 2013, 06:57:15 PMAs JL said, no noise at all. Working on setting up a limiter preset to use 10:1, fast attack, etc. Bill, you put some recommendations on a thread somewhere on what you would use.Sent from my SM-N900V using TapatalkSince the whole purpose of the limiter is protection for your ears a sharp knee fastest attack time and highest ratio is my choice and you don't want it dropping out so the longest decay time you can get. This all is removed when the signal drops below the threshold anyway. The important setting in this of course is the threshold and that would depend on your aux output levels and your ear-buds or headphones and your ear. I have a Pink Stick signal generator that runs off phantom power and has a pulse setting. This is what I would use and set the channel for clipping. This would be the typical situation to protect against. Set the limiter (aux output compressor) for what you want to tolerate in your ear. Remember that it should only be activated for protection and will be out of the way for normal use.QuoteFor the use of the aux outs to headphones you will no doubt need an extension cable. A normal stereo 3.5mm will eventually pick up noise and is also quite fragile. Here would be my choice for that extension cable. A TS connector at the DL aux with mic cable. The shield and the signal return connected to the shield. At the other end the shield unconnected the return to the shield of the 3.5mm female connector and the signal to the tip and ring (dual mono) of the 3.5mm connector. I would also attach a ferrite for RF protection near the 3,5mm connector. No adapter required since the cable as described would perform that conversion. The explanation for this is in Bill Whitlock's 2005 paper on Noise etc in audio section 3.6. As far as I know you can't buy this cable so warm up that soldering iron or let someone else do it for you. Belden #8241F is a excellent choice for a low impedance shield cable for most audio cabling.I plan on putting the adapter at the musician end with a Female-to-Female 1/4" adapter and running 1/4" cable to the AUX.
For the use of the aux outs to headphones you will no doubt need an extension cable. A normal stereo 3.5mm will eventually pick up noise and is also quite fragile. Here would be my choice for that extension cable. A TS connector at the DL aux with mic cable. The shield and the signal return connected to the shield. At the other end the shield unconnected the return to the shield of the 3.5mm female connector and the signal to the tip and ring (dual mono) of the 3.5mm connector. I would also attach a ferrite for RF protection near the 3,5mm connector. No adapter required since the cable as described would perform that conversion. The explanation for this is in Bill Whitlock's 2005 paper on Noise etc in audio section 3.6. As far as I know you can't buy this cable so warm up that soldering iron or let someone else do it for you. Belden #8241F is a excellent choice for a low impedance shield cable for most audio cabling.
Going to use a TRS. Wanted to out the adapter at the musicians end in the event they want to disconnect at break. What would be ideal would be a 1/4" male to 1/4" female TRS cable the the adapter would plug into on the female end.Sent from my SM-N900V using Tapatalk
Some test results from my headphone quest. Using the aux's with just the 25 ft. cable and the Rippoff Shacks adapter (none of the Best Buy carried stock apparently their hosing Hosa) GC was no better. There is a low but maybe tolerable hum with reasonable settings (Not maxed) and this is using the Mackie supply. I used a Aphex HP90 50 ohm set of cans. The audio sounded subdued compared to my monitor Beritone CA50 at similar levels. Possibly from low level hum and possibly other reasons. I also set up my HA4700 and connected aux to HA main in (balanced). The sound was clearly improved much crisper about like the monitor. Next will be the better power supply to see if it matters. PS the adapter cause intermittent disconnects so much for RS junk. More to come including the impedance measurement on DL phone plug.