Are ​Stage monitor outputs and Kab inputs balanced?

Are Stage monitor outputs and Kab inputs balanced?

Playing a larger stage tonight and my usual 20’ unbalanced guitar cable will be too short.

Wondering if I can put 1/4” balanced adapters on a 50’ xlr cable?

Thanks…

Quote from paults

No - the input is not balanced. You would be better off modifying one the 1/4" adapters so the ring is connected to the shield, or modifying one end of the XLR cable to do the same thing when it is connected to the adapters.

Gotcha… that’s unfortunate., and this having just occurred to me it’s too late to get into cable/adapter mods. I’ll probably just make a longer guitar cable, but then wonder if it would be a tone suck.

Are DI boxes bi-directional such that one could be put on both sides of an XLR cable?… anybody know about that?

Quote from musicmad

Maybe have a pedal with a buffer closer to you and run the longer cable after that? I think that would help here.

That’s got me thinking… with the monitor output on the stage not being balanced, is it “buffered” so to facilitate a longer cable run?

Edit: Actually, I’m thinking that the idea of a buffer as used ahead of a guitar amp is an entirely different electronics issue than what exists between the Stage output and Kab input.