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Video: About Silver Contacts and How to Clean Them

Tarnished Connector

This video will talk about silver contacts and their concerns about tarnishing. Have you ever wondered if tarnished connectors were affecting your audio? We took an in-depth look at them, focusing on their contact resistance, and showed the results in this video. Then, we look at cleaning them and what effect that has on the […]

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Beginner info, Connections, Sound, Wiring, XLR

Secure a Non-Locking Connector

The question is, what do you do when your connection is not locking and the cable keeps getting pulled out of the gear? Well there are multiple options, but let’s look at one. This requires no modification to the gear and is completely removable if you need to. It’s cheap and easy to implement, and […]

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Beginner info, Connections, Sound, Wiring

The Right Cable for the Right Job

Not unoften in the complicated world of connections that you’ll find the same connector type doing different jobs. It is important to know that just because the connection looks the same doesn’t mean that it carries the same signal or that the wire for the cable is the same. Let me give you a few […]

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Connections, RCA, Wire info, Wire Types, XLR

Video: Advanced Study of Guitar Cables

Advanced Study of Guitar Cables

Here is a video series with an in-depth look at three aspects of guitar cables and connections. Part 1 covers Input and output impedance (17 min) Part 2 covers wire size (6:48 min) Part 3 covers the use of balanced cables and snake cable for guitar. (10:51 min) There is a lot of information to […]

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Advanced Info, Connections, Guitar, Sound, Video, Wiring

Is hiring a professional for my wiring worth it?

Audio Snake Ends

It is safe to say that we build a lot of new cables. But sometimes, a customer already has a cable, and they want it modified. In this case, it is an eight pair snake with XLR connectors, and it needs TRS 1/4″ connectors on one end. It is for a church, and they are […]

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Beginner info, Sound, Wiring

Video: Wire Types – Part 2: Digital, Coax, CAT, Snake

Video about audio wire types

I would like to introduce our informative video: Wire Types – Part 2 Here are some details from the video: Digital AES/EBU and DMX wire: Digital audio cable for AES3 or AES/EBU is similar to mic cable. It is a twisted pair shielded cable and has a characteristic impedance of 110 ohms. Because it uses a […]

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Beginner info, Sound, Video, Wiring

Video: Wire Types – Part 1: Mic, Instrument, Speaker, unbalanced

Video about audio wire types

I would like to introduce our informative video: Wire Types – Part 1 Here are some details from the video: Microphone Wires: It is used for Microphone connections and balanced line-level gear connections, which includes most connections. If you are referring to it, technically, it is actually “single pair” or “one pair” shielded. It consists […]

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Beginner info, Sound, Video, Wiring

What is an insert?

Insert connection

We have more insert cable options than anyone else. We make them with right-angle, XLRs, Gold, Nickel, Zip cord, individual wire, direct out, direct in, and yes, normal straight. That is all good if you know what an insert is, so what is an insert? At the most basic, it lives up to its name: […]

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