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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The easy way out is to get a 1/4″ to 1/8″ adapter. I suggest using a right-angle adapter – I use one to plug my heaphone 1/4″ plug into my camcorder.Correctly made XLR cables and plugs are always balanced.Beware: This is a lot of weight on the 1/8″ plug going into the camcorder. You do not want to break the 1/8″ plug in the camcorder’s audio-in. Make sure you have a short “tension loop” on the part of the cable going into the camcorder.If you are THAT concerned about not having a “weak link”, then you should consider using an XLR adapter like those from BeachTek or juicedLink. They are expensive, but they also provide additional manual audio control. If you get the ones with an active pre-amp, that sounds WAY better than the camcorder’s pre-amp…
so what is your question?
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.
yep. turn the volume to lowest though first before u blow ur ears out
should be under 10 bucks, use a 1/8 stereo male to rca stereo. plug into either line out or headphone. make sure the enhancements/boosters are off to the out channels, and the volume is down. then tune in letting the amp take the load.your gonna also want to make sure you turn computer sounds down etc.its easy. i had send and return for all my equipment on my old desktop.you can even bypass firewire the same way. itll still sound clean if you use quality connections.laptop is similar, but definately need firewire atleast for multiple inputs.
If you need a mixer – go with Behringer:http://www.zzounds.com/item–BEHXENTX802You can connect any mixer to a firewire interface if you need that:http://www.zzounds.com/item–BEHFCA202
That will basically work…I would just use a guitar cable and a mono 1/4″ jack to 1/8″ plug adapter between the headphone jack on your amp and the mono mic input on your computer. The headphone jack on your amp is made to accept a stereo headphone plug, but the output is mono anyway. A mono guitar cord plug will make contact with one of the outputs and will work just fine.http://cgi.ebay.com/Radio-Shack-274-047-1-4-Mono-to-1-8-Mono_W0QQitemZ200203741452QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0The above setup will work fine for recording single tracks. Multi-track recording would generally require a pro style sound card or interface that uses ASIO drivers. Otherwise, you’ll have problems with latency (time delay). For around $70.00 you could get the guitar recording interface from Line 6 that comes with a pro mic input, software amp models, effects, etc… and uses ASIO drivers for multi-tracking.http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/product?sku=249700XAudacity is good freeware for recording, editing and adding effects.http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Most XLR cords have one end that is female and one end that is male. Most mics are considered “male” so the female end attaches to it. Male has the three pins, female has three holes. It also depends on what your trying to plug the mic into, but in every sound board I have set up the male end of the cable plugs into the board, and the mic attaches to the female end of the cable.
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
Little Dog and Lare are of course both right — but allow me to (humbly) put it all together into one answer…1. The XLR female end from a CABLE will plug into this mic.2. But you can’t use an ADAPTER (a word used later in your question) on this mic to (assuming) a 1/4″ plug because this particular mic requires phantom power (which 1/4″ jacks don’t provide).——–(added later)I just saw your other question about using this mic through a 3-conductor mini plug adapter into a camcorder (I assumed wrong on what kind of adapter!). In that case, you might get phantom power from the camcorder, and it might even be passed to the right pins on the XLR — but — it will only be 5v, not the 48v this mic needs, so it’s unlikely to work.
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.
Mics require a preamp to boost the signal, which your soundcard will not be capable of doing, and any kind of gain will be very noisy. The AD conversion of consumer soundcards is also very poor. They also have very high latency and no monitoring options, ASIO support, etc. In generally they just really aren’t designed for any kind of recording, even the more expensive ones.I would suggest you look at some kind of entry-level external audio interface, Firewire or USB, with built-in preamps. Maybe one of the cheap offerings from M-audio like the Fast Track Pro?Good choice with the mic by the way – should get you started well. I like really Rode mics! I have a few M3s, an NT1000, NT3, etc.
Wayne there is more than one way to do this, but I will give you one way.Keep your system as-is except connect the red/white RCA tape outputs of the xr600f to a spare input on the Yamaha preamp. This will work and you will not have to mess with your system wiring. All you will need is on red/white rca cable.
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).
Please don’t do it that way!! (I have two Xenyx 802’s)All you need is two RCA “Y” cables and a pair of RCA to 1/4 inch cables. You do not need to use the XLR connectors on each channel – you should use the 1/4 inch input on each channel instead. The way you are doing it uses too many adapters and the XLR connector are not meant for a line output – they are designed for mic outputs.Cables:http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat_id=2009&sku=29737http://www.zzounds.com/item–HOSCPR20Connect the male end of each Y cable to the xbox red white rca outputsConnect the RCA ends of the rca to 1/4 inch cables to one side of the Y cable Connect the 1/4 inch ends of that cable to the Xenyx 1/4 inch inputsUse the pan control on each channel on the Xenyx – pan the left channel all the way to the left and vise-versa for the right.You now will be hearing the stereo output of the xbox through the mixer
No, because XLR is for balanced cables but jacks are unbalanced so there’s no direct converter or cable, if you’ve got a specific need though there’s no reason why you couldn’t make one…..
It will NOT effect the quality of the signal or the balanced properties of the cable by any detectable amount. You can run balanced lines for hundreds of feet with little or no loss in quality. It is better to use one cable of the apropriate length if possible though because if you use an extension cable, you are adding one more set of connectors to the cable. It just takes away a bit of reliability.