hi All,

I've been digging around and around trying to answer this question by web researching on my own, but I'd much rather hear from you.

What mic cables do you like the most?

My equipment is an Apogee AD/DA MiniMe (two channel), a pair of RODE s NT5 condensor mics primarily for acoustic guitar, and a Studio Projects T3 large condensor mic for vocals.

Does anyone know of an available XLR patchbay?

I'd prefer to purchase one before resorting to building it.

I'd like to maximise my work flow and connect my pci audio interface to the patchbay, making the swapping of instruments/vocal inputs a little easier.

Any wisdom is appreciated.

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Hi' all mastering folks!

There are good things with both Balanced and Single Ended but there's also bad things. at the moment i find Single Ended gives the best results.

What do you use in your mastering studio?

Best Regards,
Henrik

The subject sums it up - the XLR output is about 20% the volume of the unbalanced output. Surely a faulty unit? As a newbie, I may be missing something. I mailed Tech21, still awaiting a response.

If it is faulty the trouble is, I bought it from America, and have a demo deadline to meet. So I am not particularly keen on sending it back for replacement.

i got the 002 rack. its real great.
but I'm wondering whats the best way to convert my other 4 analog 1/4 inputs to XLR...
i was looking at the SMPro pr4 on musiciansfriend.

The local Mars Music store is going out of business here locally, and found this a prefect opportunity to pick up some stuff at a big discount. One of the things I got was a couple of large sections of Quad mic cable. I also picked up some Neutrik gold XLR connectors (another store, unfortunately) and will be making a few DIY quad mic cables for pretty cheap.

I just did an upgrade and rearrangement of my studio & am sitting here wondering if anyone uses XLR patchbays for mic preamp's? Is this a common practice or unadvisable from a fidelity standpoint. It certainly would be a hell of a lot more convenient than repatching mic cables all the time.

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I was wandering what is the extra XLR connections on snakes (the ones that has boxes like the wall boxes on the studio). For example, is a 16 channel snake, and there is four more XLR connections named A, B, C, D... :confused:

Hello one and all.