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Hi everyone!

Just doing a follow up to conclude my journey for the perfect setup:

In the end I bought a Radial Pro-D8.

I had 3 synths which had balanced output (took me some time for Roland ones), thus for them I will use the 2 stereo TRS inputs and 2 XLR inputs for the 3rd synth.

As for the rest they all go through the DI.

And I sold the minilogue which gave me more space and freed one input. All in all, I’m quite happy with my choices.

Today I received everything but the SQ-5, so I prepared and setup the whole thing.

Tomorrow the SQ-5 will arrive. I’m so excited. It’s like Christmas plus my birthday at the same time.

And for the cables, for most I took different models from D’Addario and few high grades from Cordial (because these models weren’t available from D’Addario).

Thank you all for your great advices and help 🙏

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Thank you soooo much @nemydom 🙏

That’s exactly what I was looking for!

And actually yesterday I found that the only thing that matters is that if the output of my synths aren’t higher that the max capacity of my mixer’s inputs, then there’s no issues.

So I checked all of them: they are all far from it.

But your real live example is worth more than all my theoretical searches.

Thanks again 🙏

[avetiskParticipant]

Thank you Mike C for your feedback 🙏

Now I have a better idea of what to do.

The only thing left is breaking the piggy bank…

[avetiskParticipant]

Thank you all again for your help 🙏

@mike C: What is the main difference from your experience between the J and the Pro series?

All I could find is that J series have a greater freq. response: 20Hz~20kHz VS 10Hz~40kHz.

And yes, I agree that those pricey cables seem like “expensive baits for rich kids”…

The Canare cables look nice, but unfortunately can’t find them in my EU providers catalogs :/

What else would you recommend considering my usage?

Thank you for your time 🙏

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Thank you again Steffen for your advices 🙏

I looked at the DI boxes you recommended and they are active ones.

As far as I understand it, active ones are not the best choice when it comes to synths, right?

I’ll try to look for similar models but passive ones (if my understanding about active/passive DI is correct).

As for the cables, all my synths are quite recent ones, the oldest one being the Korg Minilogue which is from 2016, everything else is from 2018/2019 and even 2020.

And finally about the cables, I don’t what to think about it sincerely, because I read so many different opinions about them, and the most disturbing part is that both sides have trolls & experts at the same time, so I am kind of lost: should I buy expensive high quality ones or no?

I don’t make music as a living, but I live for music you could say, so sound quality may be even more important to me than a professional, as I am my sole reference in terms of quality judgement.

So I really want very good quality sound, maybe not the best, but pretty good one.

Yet I don’t want to pay $200 per cable just to get 1% of improvement in sound quality.

Maybe I should just buy a pair of Vovox or Sommer and another of Cordial and make a test, in the end trial & error may be the best approach to this.

What do you think?

[avetiskParticipant]

Thank you Mike C 🙏

What would you recommend as brand/model for the DI boxes and the cables?

Currently I’ve made the following “shopping list”:

– x6 Radial Engineering Pro D2 (stereo)
– x1 Radial Engineering Pro DI (mono)
– x7 Sommer Cable SC Onyx Twin Jack II 1.00 (from the synth to the DI)
– x7 Sommer Cable Epilogue Micro Cable 3,0 (from the DI to the SQ5)
– x2 Vovox link direct S350 XLR/XLR (from The SQ5 to the monitors)

(Strangely it’s cheaper to buy x4 single stereo DI boxes than a rack model with x8 outputs, at least with Radial)

Would you suggest anything different?

At first I had chosen only Vovox cables but then I read that while their quality was really amazing, the difference between other good brands is more a myth than reality. So I decided to go for a bit less expensive. I don’t mind spending money on this, but I don’t want to spend it for no reason.

[avetiskParticipant]

Thank you Steffen for your feedback 🙏

My setup is made with only < 3m cables; but the problem is their number and their proximity, that’s why I’m wondering if I need DI boxes or not.

Would shielded cables be enough to prevent any electro-magnetic noise?

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