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Monitor Desk and FOH Desk


tom_the_LD

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Trying to remember back to the murky days of college . Assuming impedances are equal would the signal at each desk be half the original signal , if so does this have any effect on the procedings ? I ask because I have never used mic splits and later this year I have a gig where I could use onstage monitor mix and it's not worth buying active splits for one gig .

 

It depends on the output impedance of the mic and the input impedance of the mixers. A typical mic may have an output impedance of 200 ohms while desks usually have input impedances around 2k ohms. Off the top of my head I would say that means that you will see a drop in output voltage of around 20% when using both desks. Some dedicated monitor desks have a higher input impedance in order to reduce the additional loading.

 

Cheers

 

James.

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