jerryfreak, yes, I'm saying that the "sooner" (in terms of the progression of the signals from microphones to your V2/V3 or whatever) you convert to balanced, the better. To be balanced doesn't require a signal on the wire--it's an impedance condition. Plenty of balanced microphones these days (all transformerless Neumanns, for example) are driven on only one wire.
--best regards
P.S.: I frankly don't understand Chris' (Church Audio's) objections, and suspect that he misunderstood something that I said. Of course the conductors in a balanced microphone cable are twisted--that is a much more effective way of resisting interference than even the shield is. ??
There was actually no objections. As per usual
you are giving good advice I was only trying to expand on what you were saying.
Chris