Hey, I'm mostly new to using XLR equipment, other than just running a single cable between a microphone and my equipment.
I'm currently volunteering at a school in Costa Rica. My supervisor was trying to buy cables to connect some microphones to some videoconverencing equipment, and he accidentally bought female miniXLR to female XLR cables. We needed them to be female miniXLR to male XLR to correctly connect to our equipment. I told him that we would need some male-to-male XLR connectors to make those cables work with our equipment. We have finally got the connectors in (they often take several weeks to ship things to us in Costa Rica) and I connected them together and no sound comes through the cables. I checked the microphones with other cables, and they work great, and I know the equipment works great too.
He bought several cables and several connectors, and I checked a number of combinations, so I don't think that they are faulty cables. Are there some strange electrical things that happen inside male-to-male or female-to-female cables that I haven't taken into consideration? Like, are their diodes or resisters in there, making it so this set up won't work?
Since we live in a place where it is hard to ship in new parts, I can't just run to a nearby recording store and buy other cables to replace these.
I'm currently volunteering at a school in Costa Rica. My supervisor was trying to buy cables to connect some microphones to some videoconverencing equipment, and he accidentally bought female miniXLR to female XLR cables. We needed them to be female miniXLR to male XLR to correctly connect to our equipment. I told him that we would need some male-to-male XLR connectors to make those cables work with our equipment. We have finally got the connectors in (they often take several weeks to ship things to us in Costa Rica) and I connected them together and no sound comes through the cables. I checked the microphones with other cables, and they work great, and I know the equipment works great too.
He bought several cables and several connectors, and I checked a number of combinations, so I don't think that they are faulty cables. Are there some strange electrical things that happen inside male-to-male or female-to-female cables that I haven't taken into consideration? Like, are their diodes or resisters in there, making it so this set up won't work?
Since we live in a place where it is hard to ship in new parts, I can't just run to a nearby recording store and buy other cables to replace these.