[geeks] Stupid recording engineers

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Wed Jul 24 15:33:30 CDT 2002


[ On Wednesday, July 24, 2002 at 14:55:19 (-0400), Joshua D Boyd wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Stupid recording engineers
>
> I understand that it is bad. But the difference between that design,
> and the official Rane design for summing to mono is 3 resistors, are
> one output.

Resistors cannot do anything but kill current -- they certainly can't
match impedance properly.  You might be able to properly sum the signal,
but the result will only sound good if you cut your headphone speaker
coils in half at the same time and then wire them in series.

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