How to get balanced signals into unbalanced gear?

[shedshrine]

Trying to get balanced gear to play nice with an electrix repeater. Is there some converter box or adaptor for this? I've got a balanced patchbay, and I dont' want to have to route through a mixer if possible. Is it worth trying to get someone to convert the repeater to balanced I/O? Thanks.

[I'm Painting Again]

this is a good way to mate those puppys :

http://www.ebtechaudio.com/lls-2des.html

there are three ways to wire if your not going to use that box depending on the output stage(s) of your balanced gear:

http://www.vandenhul.com/artpap/wiring4.htm

you will lose 6db of gain with out the matcher box which can be ok or can cause minor problems like increased noise floor.

hope this helps.

[J.B.Horns]

i usually just plug it right in. What's wrong with this?

[I'm Painting Again]

i usually just plug it right in. What's wrong with this?

the 6db's of make up gain you need to apply..not a huge deal but every little bit helps..also i hear that a cross-coupled balanced output wired with a floating ground can cause a lot of bad things to happen..and inverting op-amps dont take kindly to grounding the unused lead in a cable..this is just what im told by some geeks..maybe some one here more technically inclined can give you the reasons why..because im not really sure..its all greek to me..

[Scodiddly]

Poke around http://www.markertek.com, there are a bunch of little black boxes that do balanced/unbalanced and +4/-10 conversion.