Analog audio hiss/static

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Hay all, quick background: I am a youth pastor at a small church who has been just 'getting by' in the audio department. With no real know-how I have been trying to slowly get things up and running more efficiently. I hope to be able to record and podcast the speaking soon, but one step at a time.

My current battle is getting our instruments wired into the soundboard. They have been purely run via amp thus far, leaving the soundboard no control over the mix. I just got the cables today to plug into the "line out" plugs on the amps and into the XLR jacks on our stage. I am excited that it is relaying the sound, but it does have a rather strong hiss to go along with it. I don't have it blasting or anything, is this something that can be filtered out with (i don't know) a better cable? or some kind of box relay? Better soundboard? I have also seen many musicians that place a microphone in front of the amp, is that a better option (whats the difference?)?

As I said, we are a small group and am looking to make it work with what I got or some cheap patch.

Soundboard:
Yamaha MX 12/6
Soundboard Amp:
Carvin DCm 600
Instrument Amps:
Fender KXR
Fender DeVille (tube amp)
Crate (something)

Thanks for any suggestions and help.
 
oh, another interesting side note. When I turned off the tube amp (and the soundboard slider was still on for that channel) I heard some radio station. Somehow the amp or cable was acting like an antenna for a radio station... twilight zone or ...?
 
After further investigation, it looks like it's a problem with the cables I purchased. I went cheap and got them off Amazon. Returning them and buying better quality from guitar center or SamAsh later today.

Any additional thoughts on my issue however are welcome.
 
'Hiss' is going to come from many possible sources. If you are running signals from the 1/4" line-out jacks to XLR inputs on the mixer, you are running line-in level to preamps. You need to run those amp-outs to the line-in jacks on the mixer.
 
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