Guest Promo Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Alright guys I've just bought a Zoom 1204 fx unit. On the front panel it has a jack input for a mic which is for the onboard vocoder which is cool. At the back there are two inputs of which the left channel acts as the carrier for the Vocoder. My question is this - if I use a mono jack to xlr lead for the mic input at the front will the output be in mono or stereo? The outputs are stereo incidentally (two jack outs). I hope that makes sense cheers. Here's the front. Here's the back. This is the cable I wanna get. 6.35mm Mono Jack Plug to XLR Socket Microphone Cable 2m or should I be getting this? Ex-Pro XLR Cable (Socket) to 3.5mm Jack (Stereo Jack) - Black 2m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryancolecreate Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 seems like since it's a mono in that any output might be in both channels (r/L) but will have a mono signal. Unless you also have some stereo delay, or reverb going on there. oR if the vocoder carrier is stereo. I've never seen that though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ryanmcallister Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 it doesn't matter what kind of jack you get, because if the microphone input jack is mono (which for a mic it would be very strange not to be) then it will only use one lead from the stereo adapter. so just go with the mono one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Promo Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Thanks guys. I just had this fear that the output would default to the left channel or something weird like that lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hahathhat Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 some reverb will liven that saxstep rite up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryancolecreate Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 it doesn't matter what kind of jack you get, because if the microphone input jack is mono (which for a mic it would be very strange not to be) then it will only use one lead from the stereo adapter. so just go with the mono one. not really true. The third wire is used to cancel out electrical interference. It carries an extra channel of the same audio, which is inverted, and used as control to remove noise from the signal if your mixer supports that. That's what balanced means. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruising for burgers Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 i think you'll always have signal on both output channels, if it's a stereo signal or not, it depends on the reverb program or whatever you've chosen... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ryanmcallister Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 it doesn't matter what kind of jack you get, because if the microphone input jack is mono (which for a mic it would be very strange not to be) then it will only use one lead from the stereo adapter. so just go with the mono one. not really true. The third wire is used to cancel out electrical interference. It carries an extra channel of the same audio, which is inverted, and used as control to remove noise from the signal if your mixer supports that. That's what balanced means. :p i figured someone was gonna call me on that. i'm aware of balanced/unbalanced. i was just keeping my response limited to the mono/stereo question. but ya you are right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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