not necessarily. Professional analogue interconnection is all balanced but grounding schemes vary, some installations carry all drains through, others break them, either in the XLR etc or at jackfields or Krone frames.
A DI box uses a transformer to pass the signal, so the earth connection is broken.I await a more technically adept explanation
I just know (because someone showed me) that putting a DI box in between a (mains powered) laptop and the (equally mains powered) PA stopped the horrible noises, and was given to understand that this was because I wasn't directly connecting signal earth from one to the other.
Was that not correct? *stands by to learn a bit more*
Depends. My main area of expertise here is acoustic instruments, where design, quality of materials, and quality of manufacture play a significant part in both the cost and the quality of the instrument.
There are people who will buy an expensive musical instrument purely for the cachet of owning one, but in the musical circles in which I move, people playing expensive instruments are playing them because they're good, not because they're The Name To Have.
Yes, definitely the latter, and I was talking more from my experience as a "classically" trained musician. But the same would apply to my more musicianly rock/blues/jazz colleagues, albeit at somewhat lower levels of price.
Aha. So perhaps my perceived inability to tell the difference at that price/quality range isn't just down to my competence.
That's too sweeping isn't it? Pushing air around to make people happy, which is a what an instrument does, is somewhat more challenging than the design, component selection and calibration of electronics. The art of the maker may lean heavily on science, but it's art none the less, because each instrument has personality, revealed by the beauty created when a sensitive musician bonds with their instrument. Or so they say, I'm no musician. When a piece of audio equipment fails you just bung another one in, check the line up and fo to the pub. Even back in the days of huge analogue desks, when getting the lineup consistent across all the channels and groups was a major task, there wasn't much art involved until the final user got their hands on it.
A friend went to the new venue of Spiritland. He wasn't impressed. The sound was too quiet, so people could talk about elusive Tom Moulton mixes, and it cost £6.25 for half a pint.
Do these actually work then? I'm not an audiophile but i'm a gamer with a Vive headset looking for 3D audio. Is 3D audio possible? Or is it all guff? The CEO of THX seems to like them.
I dunno if those work but I'm sure 3D audio is possible, I was more questioning their claim that you will hear "music as the artist intended it". For gaming, where I guess the makers could specially make 3D sound in the game, I could see it working.
3d audio is technically impossible with a left and right headphone - you need more than 2 sources, but there are ways you can give an impression of 3d with clever reverb-based plugins. but i cant see how the hardware would do that - thats in the mix surely
ive just watched the video from that - with headphones on
ah, that sounds clever
This is a real solution to a real problem. 3D positional audio can be done in software, but they have to use a generic filter for the "average" ear shape. If you can calibrate the filter so that it exactly matches the effect of the wearer's ear, then you'll get more accurate positioning.
that isn't going to make records sound more "like the artist intended" though. from a music perspective.
Correct, it's pointless for music (unless you want to make it sound like the music is coming from "over there" no matter which way you turn your head).
