New here and also new at this.

I'm trying to find a mixer for drums and hopefully band as well.
Drums have 12 XLR condenser mics, all needing phantom power.
I'm thinking of 16-24 channels, but like I said, I'm brand new to mixing and I would appreciate any and all help.
It would be nice to be able to record as well, but a mix is the main thing here.

I'm doing a rewire of my studio and started looking at my available loose jacks and cabling. I've found 20 or so male and female XLR's that I know are very old.. 20 years or so.

I'm just wondering if I'm wrong in thinking that they should work just fine. Of course I'd clean them up with the appropriate cleaner.

Sorry if this is not the best place to post this one, but it seemed the most relavent.

I have a budget mic, which uses a mono (unbalanced) jack connector.

It's a PZM mic with a battery compartment.

I am building a custom patchbay for my preamps and compressor. All of which are 1/3 rack sizes (no, they are not tiny Universal Audio preamps. :roll: )

Instead of wiring a XLR and TRS for the balanced lines in, those combos from Neutrik would be the best thing. I don't even know if its OK to just wire a TRS jack and XLR up together to common lines (ganged 1, 2, 3).

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"

I've been trying for the past hour to connect it to my Rosetta 800, but I just cant get the right pin to screw in. The left one goes in every time, but for the life of me I can't get the right to screw in. Has anyone had this same problem? Any suggestions? I've even tried another XLRF digisnake...thank you

i have a new-to-me allen and heath sys 8 with xlr(only) bus outs, and a fostex 80 reel-to-reel, rca in/outs.
i am looking for a xlr-rca snake to hook up, but i was just told by a salesman i'd *probably* need transformers on every channel, due to impedance issues.
please advise!

Ive got a preamplifier witha kind off mono mic input. I intend to use it with my mic which uses XLR out connectors. There are 3 output wires on my mic and 2 input wires on the preamp. How can i go about it and creat a balanced signal.

having problems using a dynamic mic with a XLR jack,I'm not getting any sound,the manual says you can use a dynamic,but can't seem to figure it out.i tried the 1/4 inch jack that works fine.any help would be great.

Hi,

I might be needing to sync a DM24 to a digibeta soon. The DM24 accepts TC via a female RCA jack. This was not a problem while using the BeTascam SP. BNC to RCA cable.

Just saw a Digibeta. It has XLR TC input and output. What kind of a cable do i use ?

On the RCA side, do I :

float the negative ?
float the ground ?
Attach negative to ground ?