Doubling your inputs on interface?

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Is there some kind of xlr cable that can split into female ends so you can have a Left/Right stereo micing running into one XLR input to save space? And if you want to cheat, can you split up that "stereo" track into two monos?
 
Darn nibblettes, my plan is foiled. Thanks for the reality! :)
 
XLR is a mono wire and a shielding wire, right? What's to stop you from sending a signal through the latter to get a second channel?
 
XLR is two cores and a shield.

The two cores carry a positive and negative of the same signal. Any noise picked up shows as a + or minus on both cores, so when one is inverted (to make the signals the same) the noise cancels out.

You can't send a signal down the shield cable; That's no good.

It's common to all inputs and connected to the chassis of the interface. That's connected to ground so your signal would go straight to ground.

If there was going to be a conceivable way of doing it it would be to use the + for one signal and the - for another, but even then the preamps circuitry is gonna be balanced and it would involve a shitload of DIY, and your inputs would now be unbalanced.

I don't even know if that's possible, but if it is you'd be so balls deep that you may as well just built an interface with more channels.
 
Another thing: If your interface only has 4 inputs, that means it only has 4 converters. No matter how many things you plug into the front of it, it will still only be able to digitize 4 mono signals.
 
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