Topic: Splitting the signal...

[greppson]

Some of you may have seen my other thread about my bass problems that apparently I am just over paranoid about. I was thinking of running a splitter in my chain this weekend at a show to see what the different would be. And also so I can truly see how a ua-5 affects my tape.

Would run something like this:

SP-CMC2As > Batt Box w/ 95 Hz rolloff > Splitter > A and B (see below)

A = > JB3
B = > w+ mod UA-5 > JB3 (SVU-2)

Can I split a signal here and run it to the 2 recorders?



It may seem a waste to some, but for me, it's a good test of my system, let's me see what the differences are, and really see if I've got some bass issues going on.

[SparkE!]

Why do it the first time at a show?  Just hook the stuff up in your own home, crank the stereo and record.

If you are running a passive splitter, then the input impedances of the two recorders will both load the mic signal.  The same waveform will appear at the input to both recorders, but the waveform will have been loaded by the parallel combination of both input impedances.  So, if your problem is related to loading of the signal, both will see the same thing and you won't know which of them loaded the signal or whether it was the combination of both of them. (I doubt that either will significantly load the signal and if it does it will be in the form of moving the bass rolloff corner frequency to a higher frequency.)