A tutorial explaining digital audio interconnection signal types in the home and project recording studio, including S/PDIF, AES, Toslink, ADAT, and MADI

About to hook up my friend's recently purchased equipment and went to Guitar Center this morning to get the interconnect cables.

I am hooking up starting from top to bottom:

Numark Mixer into
Peavey EQ into
Rane AC22 Xover into
Crown MT1200 for bass and MT600 for mids and highs

Peripheral Component Interconnect, originally designed by Intel, is an interconnect system for sending data between the CPU and peripherals independently of the processor.

I was just looking at picking up some new 1/4" cables to connect stuff in my home studio. Basically, need them to connect preamps to compressors, compressors to the soundcard inputs, nothing fancy. Probably looking at buying about 10 or so for now, probably about 3' to 6' in length. My question is this...

Hey all,

In the process of setting up my home studio.

-Shure SM58
-M-audio 410 audio interface
-M-audio Axiom 25 midi controller
-Windows XP (3.2Ghz, 3GB RAM)
-Yamaha AX750 amplifier with Mordaunt Short Genie 5.1 speaker system

What is the difference between these 2 cables, and can I use a standard XLR interconnect -- out from an inrerface AES EBU -- to digital AES EBU in on a DAT recorder?

thanks.

-ptfigg.

Hi, always wondered about the following:

1. How often would you pros out there recommend replacing a mic/instr/interconnect cable. I have some quality cables I soldered up some five years ago now (looks fine, gold plugs etc), are they still good for critical recording?

Can one use mic cable to connect outboard gear - XLR to XLR, or is it any different from interconnect cable - up until this point the compressors/eq's i've bought have used 1/4"