Reply To: Group Outputs / Mix Outputs Signal Strength

[GCumbee]

We learned many years ago that the practice of shorting pin 3 or 2 to 1 was not necessarily a good or correct practice. Many manufacturers discouraged this practice. Dbx was one. Rane put out a document showing the correct methods. Reasoning was that in a differential output that shorting the negative to ground was in fact an electronic short therefore not good on the circuit chip. Overheating or failure or distortion could be expected.

This practice works on transformer circuits since they are passive.

I have not run full measurement tests on QU series products but haven’t noted any problems in my installations. I haven’t used groups though as outputs.