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In Reply to: Your favorite Microphones (Cables???) posted by paulmpianist on May 29, 2006 at 12:42:51:
paulmpianist, hi. First cables. If you have patience and soldering skills try making your own. Take your time. Use Neutrik or Canare connectors. For wire use Canare 4E6S Starquad microphone cable. You can use for line level too. This cable uses irradiated polyetheylene NOT polyvinyl chloride for dialectric which is a Big Step Up. Two conductors per pole. Take your time terminating and use a good solder: No Lead - something like 96.5% Tin and 3.5% Silver with activated rosin core. I have made up cables in this way for years with terrific results. Cables made up in this way will amaze.Now microphones. You cannot easily go from 1/4" unbalanced to XLR without getting into some serious issues: impedance, loading, unbalanced drive, etc. XLR has two conductors for audio each out of phase with the other so common mode noise disappears. Impedance is Low. This gets complicated. The reason it sounds better with the transformer is that the transformer allows each side to see what it wants in terms of impedance. There is no short cut. Even using active devices to create a pseudo-balanced output/input can't beat a good trans. You also get the advantage of RFI blocking.
I better not suggest microphones. It looks like you are wanting same for live performance. I am more familiar with studio application. Hope this helps.
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