Cable and Routing Questions

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Hope this is the right forum for this question: I need to find two cables which go from XLR on one end to RCA on the other to connect my mixing board (Main Mix Out on a Soundcraft M12) to my standalone CD burner and/or minidisk recorder. I know that the sound quality won't be as "clean" as a digital connection, but it's not an issue because this connection will only be used to cut mock-up mixes of rehearsals, music lessons, and practice sessions. The question is, where can I find cables such as this?

Also, since I have one output on the board and two sources I'd like to send it to, what would be the best way to do this? Both of the sources (CD and MD) need RCA ins. Would I be better off splitting the RCA signal I get from the cables I mentioned above (once I find them, that is...), or using some kind of an A/B box to split the signal? Any constructive input appreciated.
 
If youy don't want to build the cable yourself, Markertek has it- XLR Male to RCA Male, in 7 different lengths. The part number for the 1.5' one is SC1.5XR- go to http://www.markertek.com for more details, and search on that part number.

You can also get RCA Female-2xRCA Male Y cables: part number Y-PF-2P. That'd get you going.

The Soundcraft will have enough oof to easily allow you to mult those two loads onto its output. The only caveat: make sure both units are powered up whenever you are recording to either one of them. If one of them is off, chances are that the input protection diodes on the opamp that listens to its input will fire, giving you a subtle, level-dependent, annoying, and hard-to-find distortion problem. That's caused a world of grief for folks who mult signals over the years, me included...
 
You could also use xlr to 1/4" into a patchbay, then 1/4" to rca's out as many times as you need.
 
Use the aux outs

Your board has two pre fader aux outs and two post fader outs

For a simple mix just set the aux outs to 0db (Unity gain) on each channel and master send and the signal that you get will be the same relative levels as your fader settings.

DOM:p
 
Thanks for the replies. I'm going to go with the Markertek cables, as I'd like to wire the thing once and be done with it.
 
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