Passive Toolbox

[Peterson Goodwyn]

I guess we are talking about different types of monitoring. I meant my monitoring in the control room, because you were talking about "listening to the sounds you are capturing," etc.

You are right that monitoring through a DAW imposes latency.

[calaverasgrandes]

phase and polarity arent the same thing.
I have some phase flipping cables (the only ones that I own that are red!) so that I can mic under a snare and bring it up in phase. Or mic both sides of a twin.

[Nate Dort]

phase and polarity arent the same thing.
I have some phase flipping cables (the only ones that I own that are red!) so that I can mic under a snare and bring it up in phase. Or mic both sides of a twin.

you mean "polarity flipping cables." phase implies a shift in the time domain. Unless your red cables have some sort of delay circuit built into them.

[calaverasgrandes]

yeah, but polarity flipping cable is too many syllables to say every time I use one.
See first part of my post, I am aware of the difference.
Though they are made of tachyon impregnated silver wire that moves the time domain 180 degrees into the past.

[Nate Dort]

See first part of my post, I am aware of the difference.

I knew you were, otherwise you wouldn't have mentioned it, but I just wanted to make sure that somebody who read your post and wasn't aware of the difference realized exactly what the difference was. No offense meant.

[calaverasgrandes]

yeah, well it was kinda an ambiguous post now that I read it.
I know what I meant!
Then there is also that we hvae been calling them "phase" switches forever. I know when I first learned audio engineering I thought the same thing. "but its not phase, its polarity".
Phase is continuous, polarity is absolute.

[vvv]

Where doya source that tachyon impregnated silver wire ?