Yo! I'm a programmer but I need to figure out some audio stuff for work, any advice would be amazing! I don't like asking things unless I've done my fair share of work too, so here goes:
I'm replacing a lecture-recording box (
this one - link to wiring documentation) with a different lecture recording box (
this one). The old box accepts a 5-bare-wire balanced input (ground, and then 2 wires for left-channel and 2 wires for right-channel). The new box only accepts a simple stereo 3.5mm jack input.
I just read an
article about how balanced wires work and it seems really cool and clever. My question is: can I buy a small box that will accept balanced bare-wire inputs (that are probably running a hundred feet or something), do the balancing-magic, and output an unbalanced 3.5mm signal (that will only travel a few inches, so it shouldn't pick up too much noise along the way) ?
I could just tape-over the inverted signals and be left with 3 wires, and then use one of
these 3-wire to 3.5mm thingies, but then I get all the noise from the 100-foot wire, and I want to do this right for my customer.
Any suggestions would be amazing, thanks again! <3
