Balanced/Unbalanced Line Out 4 Ohm / 8 Ohm Input Interface

hey everybody this is Joe Gilder from home studio corner comm today I'm going to talk about balanced versus unbalanced cable what's the difference now this isn't this is a little more technical than I normally like to go into but I just think it's fascinating and I think it might be helpful for you so there's balanced and unbalanced cables right you may not know which is which and why I'm going to tell you today hopefully quickly here is an unbalanced cable this is a guitar cable a patch cord you'll see it's a quarter-inch and it has one line on it so there's two sections of metal and one line in the middle okay this is an RCA connection it is also unbalanced those are your two main RCA or two main unbalanced connections that you're going to see in most gear now let's talk about balanced balanced XLR is a balanced signal it has three pins three conductors three wires going down the cabl