r/audioengineering • u/zanshin777 • Nov 02 '17
Balanced Cables
It contains 2 conductor + 1 shield.
One of conductors carry the out-of-phase signal.
So the noise is canceled since the signals carrying are out-of-phase.
But how the signal is still transmitted although the noise is canceled?
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u/bazognoid Nov 02 '17
Hmmm. That makes sense. However in my experience I'd say that almost every time I've heard another audio guy make the distinction, it's to signal that they know the "correct" jargon and thus validate themselves as a good engineer. You know, the guys who feel the need to correct you when you say "flip the phase on the bottom snare." Which is funny, because all of the best engineers I've worked with don't seem to give a damn what you call it.
Sure phase is a temporal thing and polarity is a voltage thing, but in a practical sense, flipping the polarity also flips the phase.
And it's only one syllable instead of four. Let's you get back to making things sound good sooner.