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Hardware Instruments => MicroFreak => MicroFreak - Technical Issues => Topic started by: roms on March 06, 2022, 07:00:38 pm

Title: L/R polarity inverted (Output jack only, not headphones)
Post by: roms on March 06, 2022, 07:00:38 pm

Hi

just received my Microfreak
If I listen to the headphone output everything is OK, but if I plug my headphone to the main output L and R have inverted phases. (same headphone used, using the small-> big jack adapter that comes with the headphones, so i'm 100% sure it comes from the Microfreak)

do i have to send it back ? or is there a way to set it in the options ?

Title: Re: L/R polarity inverted (Output jack only, not headphones)
Post by: vinark on March 07, 2022, 07:12:36 am

Hi,
it is not a stereo out but a balanced mono output, so it is as it should be. You can use TRS to connect to something that has balanced inputs or use TS for unbalanced connections.

Title: Re: L/R polarity inverted (Output jack only, not headphones)
Post by: roms on March 07, 2022, 08:58:58 am

ok thanks.
First time I'm confronted to a balanced mono signal (not used to hardware synths)

Title: Re: L/R polarity inverted (Output jack only, not headphones)
Post by: vinark on March 07, 2022, 09:53:16 am

Yeah, it is not very common, especially on cheaper synths, mostly and even then not always on expensive workstations.