Good point. this Avid 11rack conection was developed for: line output to amp, mixer or P A . It's coming out the Rigg sound and that's exactly what I want since I dont enjoy much stereo guitar recording . Should be low level output, do you agree ? ... I just found a similar cable around my studio, and this one it's only a mono Jack to mono XLR ! Both seems to do the same result, no noise issues and testing this last set up with the mono jack within Sonar most of recording levels input are around minus 14, one or two clean riggs came close to minus 6 . It seems that no Rigg is to loud which is fine . Anyway exist the minus 10 pad on each pre amp if necessary right ?! Thanks a bunch, Rui Vilarinho ----- Original Message ----- From: D!J!X! To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 9:16 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Connecting two interfaces, cable doubt You need to make sure impedance matches. If the line out is a balance mono out, you should be fine. If the cable run is short, you can do this with a regular ts or trs ¼ inch cable. The problem with running it to xlr is that those are usually set for low line mic pickup/input, and if you feed it a high level or line level output, it might distort the sound, or in worst case, damage your pre-amp depending on the output level/volume. HTH, D!J!X! From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rui Vilarinho Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 2:35 PM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Connecting two interfaces, cable doubt Hi folks, If I'm not missing anything should be ok to use a cable that I have around, it has got: male stereo Jack to balanced XLR , And my aim is: I want to direct out from Avid 11rack mono line out, female jack, and using the refered above cable I want to direct the sound to one of my XLR MAudio Profire 2626 inputs. Well I know that since the male jack is stereo it will only send the left side right ? the source is a mono line out though ! Well, the doubt is: is it possible to lose sound quality? or it's fine ? Rui Vilarinho