[cma-l] Raspberry Pi in the studio

[Two Lochs Radio]

I may have stumbled across a photo of that incident...



But presumably the same would have happened if the mic input has been on a jack socket. A handy warning, but I guess the moral of the story is don't put your plug where it wasn't intended to go! I think I'll stick with XLR as that's what the desk uses, and in my experience jacks inevitably become noisy if left in one place for too long. Maybe you use higher quality jacks than us.

Alex
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bruce Rodger 
  To: Two Lochs Radio 
  Cc: London Chinese Radio ; cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 4:41 PM
  Subject: Re: [cma-l] Raspberry Pi in the studio


  I'd agree with Alex - those USB 2 in 2 out 3m leads are great. Cheap as chips, and don't need any special drivers, for windows or Linux.


  HOWEVER, I'd recommend getting the version with balanced jack connections rather than the XLR one. Electronically they're identical, but you're less likely to destroy it in the way I destroyed mine....


  Don't plug the XLR outputs into a mic input if phantom is enabled. As corporal Jones would say "they don't like it up 'em..."


  I have a fried unit to prove this.


  Bruce.


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