Balanced & Unbalanced, Analog & Digital, All Connections Explained // Audio Interfaces Part 2

The second video in the Audio Interfaces explain series where we talk about the analog and digital connections of an audio interface, what they are and what they're used for, what are unbalanced and balanced connections, and more!
00:00 Intro
00:34 Balanced vs Unbalanced audio cables
02:13 Analog Connections and what they are used for (TS, TRS, XLR, RCA, DB25, snake cables)
04:51 Analog Connections recap chart
06:03 Digital Connections (S/PDIF, AES/EBU, ADAT, MADI)
07:42 MIDI
08:57 Outro
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[@chopov11]

Yes would like a series on midi!

[@chopov11]

Beautiful video

[@ElRobboz]

I'm interested in a segment on MIDI.

[@sekritskworl-sekrit_studios]

Yes PLEASE!!!! I'd love a MIDI series!

[@arbitersofsound]

It's going to happen. It has taken some time, but it's happening we promise!

[@wxray2.0]

This was very well done just give the channel some time and I am sure it will grow. I can tell you put a lot of time into animating as well as creating the simple cord and background art. Keep up the good work. I would like to see you teach about sound treatment vs sound proofing. When you get the wall mounted sound proofing someone might expect they absorb or redirect the sound away from said surface. It would help a lot of early video and audio content creators, musicians, and singers. You could go into what sound treatment does to sound as well as the different types and technologies of sound treatment. You could include headphone sound cancelation technology as headphone sound over a certain db is the number 1 cause of hearing loss so you might be saving a lot of ears. hope this comment gives you some ideas for future videos.

[@ayoreis]

MIDI! Yes please!

[@MadelnMachines]

What can I do with the RME Digital Breakout Cable, AES/EBU & SPDIF? It's not like an expansion for stageboxes and sort of like like ADAT is it?

[@arbitersofsound]

It allows you to connect AES/EBU and SPDIF gear to your interface. If you don't have external gear with digital ins and outs (digital synths, digital fx units, guitar amp modellers, etc) it's probably not super useful to you.

[@Only1retro]

Can my rca to xlr be used as my spidf cable??

[@arbitersofsound]

Most likely no. What devices are you trying to connect?

[@Only1retro]

@@arbitersofsoundtrying to connect my dbox+ to scarlet 18i20, I'm using the analog send for my monitoring, and db25 for summing, but I wanted a spidf connection

[@Only1retro]

I tried using my rca to xlr on my cdj digital sends and it worked'

[@arbitersofsound]

@Only1retro From what I can see the dbox has AES digital and the scarlett SPDIF, which are different standards. Although, I found this old article on SOS which explains how and why it could actually work in specific cases: www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/q-can-connect-aes-output-spdif-input Does that help at all?

[@Only1retro]

@@arbitersofsound yes, this is what I was looking for, it'll work. It's an xlr to rca phono.

[@mandolin-george-uk]

Midi yes please ..

[@arbitersofsound]

Thanks! It's been a plan now for a veeery long time but we just need to get round to it :P