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Another way to ask the same question, does it do any good to use a balance cable when one or both of the to and from units are not balanced. As you see in the diagram below, there are three male pins inside the connector: the groundwire, the hot signal, and the cold signal. It’s important to understand audio cables (and how they’re made) to properly assess which one is right for the job.

The added safety of the balanced cable comes at a cost, and even after you make the purchase, you still need to pair your cables with balanced mixed equipment, which can also be more expensive. NP3X-BAG to NP3X-BAG - Straight to Straight 3 pole Jack cable connectors with black metal housing and Silver contacts. It does a decent job of rejecting noise, but unfortunately, the wire itself also acts like an antenna and picks up noise. The plugs fit with a satisfying latch and have decent strain relief before the body of the cable, so I think they’ll take a lot of punishment before they give up.

TRS stands for tip, ring, sleeve, and can be used to send either mono (balanced) or stereo (unbalanced) signals. For example, did you know every cable you use in your production setup has the potential to add unwanted noise to your audio feed? but my situation is trying to record a Lowrey Sensation organ, through Steinberg UR22, and onto a computer DAW. The signal wire in the center of the cable passes the audio signal through, while the surrounding ground wire shields the main signal wire from external electronic interference from devices such as lights, televisions, radios and transformers.Also,do you think monitor hum’s are canceled out with a balanced cable,or is the surge protector/power strip to blame and balanced cabling would be a waste of money? My wife and I bought a couple of Audioline NpartyM battery/mains amps a few days ago as we do small community service gigs as well as larger venues where we use the Bose. The hum from a nearby television or audio system could be picked up by the cable heard in your audio capture. Or is the signal split at the beginning of the run, one half is flipped, then flipped back, then you have the sum of 1 signal and no noise?