Hi, I'm redoing the connectors for some cables that will be used with the Shure 58A microphone. When I opened up the XLR connectors, pin 1 and pin 3 are shorted with a copper wire. Is this really needed?

I thought normally the XLR convention is:
1- ground
2- positive
3- negative

Thanks.

I am attempting to customize a Epi Les Paul, new pick ups and parts. The model is the Black Beauty, which is a three pick up model presently wired like this

I am making a isolation box with one speaker in it (12" celestion greenback 8 ohms)...I have a 1/4 on the outsie of the box...Now, I'm unsure on how to hook the wire to the jack...I have 18gauge stranded wire...Can someone draw a diagram or explain how to wire it? Thanks

I'm doing a setup on a friend's guitar and two of his three pickups don't have any sound, the bridge is the only one that works. I opened it up and the inside looks like somebody tampered with it. They don't even look soldered. I can solder but is there a schematic that I can follow?

I'm about to solder my new pickups and I'm wondering what your opinion of phase inversion is.

Supposedly you wire one pickup with the neg and pos reversed and when you select both pickups at the same time they run at inverse phases to eachother and cancel the shared frequencies.

Hi all.
For reasons I'll leave out, 2 of our speakers (the monitors for the band) are in my house among other things. Being bored and knowing that the tweeter on one wasn't working, I opened it up to look. Lo and behold, the tweeter works (probably) but there's a loose wire.

The speaker is a Wharfedale Pro PT-12, the woofer is branded D-003.

Hi,
I'm planning to finally start to solder the cables. In another forum someone was so kind to give me an idea how to connect everything. But as I'm an absolute newbeeee I would really apreaciate to have more option for comparissons regarding a plan how to connect the equipment.
I would like to reserve 12 ch.'s as a standard for the mixer.
2x for the CD player

I'm using a Behringer Mixer Xenyx 1222FX. I have to connect the Main Outputs of the mixer to the unbalanced line-in of a Dolby stereo amplifier which uses 2 RCA connectors. In order to make the correct wirings (balanced XLR -> unbalanced RCA), I have to know if the output stage of the mixer uses:
transformers,

I record my Midi performances on my Yamaha Motif ES into a Sweetwater Creation Station DAW. I record with Sonar using an Edirol FA-66 soundcard (audio interface), and running Receptor with the Komplete libraries (which utilize Kontakt as a plugin soft synth within Sonar).

I didnt know if this is the correct forum but i need help rewiring this mic. but i bought a C414 today, from craigs list local, for 500$. it says C414 but no EB, its not any of the new models...it has the brass ring capsule as far as i can tell (its all brass )