i am starting to wire up my new space and have a patchbay that requires soldering. all of the cabling is there, i'm just switching 8 bal. 1/4" to 8 XLRs. i've never dealt with one of these before.
i clipped the 1/4" jacks off and soldered on the XLRs like so:
ground to pin 1 and jumped to pin 2. hot and cold to pin 3.
i sent a test tone to buss 2 and patched buss 2 to tape input 2. when i physically made the patch, the level showing up on buss 2 went away and nothing showed up on the tape machine meter. i listened to the return of the tape machine and i could only hear a faint tone. i tried a couple of different combos but none worked. they all did the same thing.
tomorrow i plan on soldering the ground to pin 1, hot to 2 and cold to 3. will this solve my problem? i know this is rudimentary but it's somewhat new to me. thanks!
-justin
Question about wiring up a patchbay.
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By connecting hot and cold to one pin, they cancel out each other (in a balanced system the hot and cold signals are polarity inverted versions of each other, usually...)
No, you need to do what you suspect: Ground = Pin 1 (="Sleeve" on 1/4" TRS) Hot = Pin 2 (="Tip") and Cold = Pin 3 (="Ring").
No offence, please, but where did you get that hot-and-cold-to-pin-3 idea?
No, you need to do what you suspect: Ground = Pin 1 (="Sleeve" on 1/4" TRS) Hot = Pin 2 (="Tip") and Cold = Pin 3 (="Ring").
No offence, please, but where did you get that hot-and-cold-to-pin-3 idea?
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