I'm itching to transfer tonight's tapes and I'm away from my home deck and good ol' Radio Shack coax cable. All I have is my D8, computadora with the Waveterminal 2496, and assorted cables and shit.
Here are the relevant ones:
[1] Pro-Digital active 7 pin - doesn't pass a signal, never has
[2] Brian Skalinder's spare Oade active 7 pin - rockin' like dokken
[3] a shitty looking black male RCA > male RCA cable of unknown origin
The inputs of the sound card are (obviously) female RCA. So is the output of the Oade 7 pin. Put a female and female together in Mulholland Drive and you have one of the hottest things in movie history, but this is not so in tape transferring!
Second, I don't want to spend money that I don't have on a new coax cable for one-time-use and subsequent backup.
The Question (phinally): If I shack up the Black Cable of Mystery with the Oade 7 pin and the coax ins of my Waveterminal and it works, should I worry about "signal loss" or anything negative? Or would everything be cool?
Thanks, fellers!
Armen
OK, sweet! I'll rewind and fire up the comp. Tank you.
Reports of dice or no dice to follow.
Looks like dice right now. I had one channel tweak out a few seconds in, but I think that's due to me putting a kindkables interconnect (big ol' connectors and shrink tubing) through the wringer.
+T armen, you phlow quite well brotha!!!
Why, thank you, Bean.
Schuster helped me determine that the Black Cable of Mystery was some old video cable that was indeed 75 ohms-rated-style, so it's all good in the hood. No problems transferring a'tall.
I also jacked Brian Skalinder's cable-reinforcement idea and constructed some trusses out of stacks of ~16 gauge wire and duct tape. They make my mini > 2 rca adapter look nice and robust!