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  • December 1, 2019 at 6:30 pm #86055
    samdi
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    Just bought the 95000 unit. Hooked up a guitar and made a loop, works. Then i hooked it up to my monosynth (arturia microbrute) and the sound will not come through. I tried the synth straight through to the speaker, no problem. Tried a guitar hooked up to the very same input on the looper, all sound comes through.

    I’m using mono 1/4″ jack into the left input on the unit.

    Is it possible that the unit has a problem with self powered instruments? The 45000 worked just fine for this.

    UPDATE:
    For some reason if i put a mixer in between the looper and my synth i get sound. I don’t get it. It’s not super handy but atleast i can work some stuff out for now.

    December 4, 2019 at 6:18 pm #125671
    Flick (EHX Staff)
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    This is very strange. We have definitely connected synths directly to the 95000, although not the Microbrute. Are you using a standard TS cable when you connect the synth to the 95000? The 1/4″ input on the 95000 must be made with a TS cable, TRS cables will cause problems.

    If you are using a TS cable, try different settings of the synth’s volume knob and the 95000’s input gain knob.

    December 4, 2019 at 6:26 pm #125673
    samdi
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    December 4, 2019 at 6:28 pm #125676
    samdi
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    Quote:
    This is very strange. We have definitely connected synths directly to the 95000, although not the Microbrute. Are you using a standard TS cable when you connect the synth to the 95000? The 1/4″ input on the 95000 must be made with a TS cable, TRS cables will cause problems.

    If you are using a TS cable, try different settings of the synth’s volume knob and the 95000’s input gain knob.

    Issue has resolved itself and i’m not sure how or why. I hadn’t changed anything but decided to try a different TS mono cable, and a friend recommended i try and lower the master on the synth. So i should have tried both things separately but i did them at once and the sound came through without issues almost as if I never had a problem to begin with.

    Once i got the sound i tried pushing it to see if it would blank out past a certain threshold, but all i got was clipping (red light overdriven preamp distortion etc).

    But interesting to hear about the TRS thing. So balanced cables aren’t recommended?

    December 4, 2019 at 6:30 pm #125674
    Flick (EHX Staff)
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    Right, no balanced cables into the 1/4″ inputs of the 95000, TS only. If you want to use a balanced cable, it must be XLR into the 95000’s XLR inputs.

    December 4, 2019 at 6:34 pm #125675
    samdi
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    Right, no balanced cables into the 1/4″ input of the 95000 TS only. If you want to use a balanced cable, it must be XLR into the 95000’s XLR inputs.

    First time I hear of this.

    What sorts of problems does it bring?

    December 4, 2019 at 6:37 pm #125677
    Flick (EHX Staff)
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    When using a TRS cable at the 1/4″ input of the 95000 the signal can fail to make it to the input gain stage. So it doesn’t pass the TRS signal.

    December 4, 2019 at 6:55 pm #125678
    samdi
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    Interesting

    Thank you for your time!

    December 4, 2019 at 7:24 pm #125679
    Flick (EHX Staff)
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    Thank you for purchasing the 95000. Hope you’re into it other than the TRS cable thing.

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