I have gotten at lesat 10 times the value of my purchase from my Xlr Female. Xlr Female has completely surpassed my expectations.
how to build a XLR male connector?
how can you make one. the Xlr Female one with three silver sticks. the one that looks like a mic connector. how can you make one? male=3 sticks female=3 holes
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Bingo, my thought exactly. XLR is an input, not an output. If used for an output, it’s not an amp output, but a line-level output for bridging to another amp input.Not sure about the specs to your system (3-ch, is that left, right & sub?), but professional speakers have a parallel loop-thru for connecting a second speaker. Of course, half the power goes to one speaker while half goes to the other, so you’d have to drive them harder to get the same level as one speaker. And you’d want to do the same with the other channel for balance.You won’t blow out your system with too much power as your system can only send out whatever it normally does. Nothing will increase that. Nor will you damage the extra speakers since you’re divvying up that power among more speakers.
Don’t built one – buy one – they are not that expensive and it will actually work:http://www.amazon.com/XLR-Male-Connector-Solder-type/dp/B000I98ZW8/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=musical-instruments&qid=1271432870&sr=1-10
well the more separation you can get in a track the better so yes you will get a better mix. Man get yourself a better DAW.
The NT1A is a condenser mic, so it needs phantom power to run. The USB-XLR you showed says “Power supply via USB interface,” but I’d want to make sure it really MEANS 48v Phantom Power, or you’ll get nothing. Other than that, you need some software (Audacity is free and very good) and you’re good to go!
The benefit of getting the interface is that you’ll be able to go straight into your computer with usually far less noise than if you went in through your sound card or stock computer mic in and line in jacks.Unless you’ve got a *really* good sound card, the line in and mic in jacks on your computer aren’t made very well. They’re noisy, and will limit the usable quality you’ll get from your setup. Honestly, it might not be that important in the short run, but over time you’ll realize how much noise is there (especially if you mix at all) and you’ll wonder how to fix it.Interfaces, by and large, have better signal-to-noise rations than sound cards, mostly because that’s what they’re made for, that and only that.With an interface, unfortunately, you don’t get a lot of the functionality of the mixer…. no routing or EQ or other such controls that you get real used to messing with. Interfaces are also a heck of a lot simpler – it’s plug and go. The key with interfaces is getting to know your host application, ie, your software, and how to use it to do what you want digitally, and knowing how loud you can push your mic before it starts clipping. You don’t want clipping.You’ll also need some headphones… you don’t want to monitor yourself with computer speakers, you risk feeding back. Get some studio quality headphones if you can – that’s the best for this kind’ve thing, you hear a flat response. You can monitor with normal headphones, but what you hear won’t be what’s actually recorded – normal headphones are EQ’d to make them sound louder, bassier, etc. That messed with the frequency curve and when you play your music back on another device, like a CD player, you’ll end up very surprised…. I mean, a normal headphone is okay for now, if you’re strapped for cash, but understand what I mean for when you do have the money, okay?Oh yeah… are you sure you need 15′? If you’re in a small room it could be too much. I’ve been there, that’s all.Good luck!EDIT: Yeah, I agree that the Art stuff isn’t very good as far as preamps, but see if you can find reviews first. I’m using a Lexington Alpha, recording with Reaper, and I’m incredibly happy with the results. Previous experience recording with M-Audio 2496, and the Lex has better noise figures than it did.Saul
We don’t know what they are sending to you so we don’t know if you will have a Mic or Line feed.We also don’t know what event you will be recording… I try to NEVER do a board mix. Of all the audio folks I know, only one can send a properly mixed discrete AUX send that sounds acceptable (for live music).
You’re not grounded properly. First make sure your guitar cord is not touching your mic stand or mic cord, or any other cords or power sources. If this doesn’t fix it you’re running too hot on your mic or guitar. Could be your PA system has a short as well.
The best way is to get some belden mic cable at Radio shack and pick up one female and two male XLR connectors there.Look at an existing cable to see what the leads use. Then cut the wire into two piece, strip all the ends, twist the same leads on the two wires together. Put some solder on the connceting leads of all the XLR connectors, tin all the cable wire, then reheat each of the connectors and put the wires into the connectors.You can probably buy this unit at Radio shack, however.