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Title: ua5 as an a>d?
Post by: Teen Wolf Blitzer on January 05, 2006, 01:25:52 PM

I borrowed a friends VMS-5U for this weekend for a festival in which some bands allow taping and others won't. I borrowed it to go with a stealth Schoeps setup for the not so friendly artists. .  And if I wanted to use the UA-5 as an a>d and the VMS as the pre for the friendly artists only would I go xlr from the vms>1/4" in the front of the ua5 or XLR>rca in the back of the ua5?  I'm pretty sure you don't wanna go into the xlr or it will go through two pres...right?

Title: Re: ua5 as an a>d?
Post by: willndmb on January 05, 2006, 09:14:35 PM

i am pretty sure you could do either
but i would think rca would work better because if you went 1/4 then you would be hitting the ua5 pre too and have 2 sets of knobs to adjust
where if you go rca in it will get the exact signal and just convert it to dig to output to whatever you are using as a recorder

Title: Re: ua5 as an a>d?
Post by: Cooker on January 06, 2006, 09:57:42 AM

you would still need to adjust the trim pot on the rear of the ua-5 if using RCAs

Title: Re: ua5 as an a>d?
Post by: Teen Wolf Blitzer on January 06, 2006, 12:18:00 PM

Thanks guys.  My plan was to use the rca.  Cheers!

Title: Re: ua5 as an a>d?
Post by: bluegrass_brad on January 06, 2006, 12:26:26 PM

Mark - set the input knob on the back of the UA5 to 12.  That is unity Im pretty sure.

Title: Re: ua5 as an a>d?
Post by: thunderbroom on January 06, 2006, 12:33:35 PM

Isn't the RCA a padded input?  I think it's set at -10 db at full.

Title: Re: ua5 as an a>d?
Post by: Teen Wolf Blitzer on January 10, 2006, 05:44:12 PM

Hey now-

Just a fyi.  I ended up going digi coax out of the v3> coax of the UA5.  Worked fabulously.  Better than rca I think?  So basically I just used the UA5 as an interface to the PC.

Title: Re: ua5 as an a>d?
Post by: NJFunk on January 11, 2006, 10:31:28 AM

Quote from: tapermark on January 10, 2006, 05:44:12 PM

Hey now-

Just a fyi.  I ended up going digi coax out of the v3> coax of the UA5.  Worked fabulously.  Better than rca I think?  So basically I just used the UA5 as an interface to the PC.

The only issue with this is that there is a redundant resample step in the UA-5, but I don't see that as a real big deal.