You're welcome Rak!

You're most welcome Rosi, welcome to the channel!

Glad the video was helpful :)

Thanks for watching, Mayur!

You're welcome! You have a liking for that particular connector?

@@GLBProductions i am working for Cannon. ;)

Aha! Does your company have any plans to start manufacturing audio connectors again?

Glad it was helpful!

You're welcome Anthony.

What you are doing is ok! Going from a balanced 1/4" output aka TRS to an XLR input is absolutely fine - the problem is when people try to connect a stereo unbalanced signal into an XLR input using one of these connectors 😨

You're welcome, thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching Scott!

You're welcome Javier!

Isn't it great when that kind of thing clicks in your brain? 😊

Thanks for watching :)

+Chris Fox Thanks for the message Chris, I'm really glad to hear that the videos have been helpful. The right tools are so important to getting the job done! Feel free to get in touch any time you have more questions :)

All the best with your new system!

You're welcome. You mean between TRS and XLR? The main difference is that XLR is a locking connector, which is REALLY important in certain applications. The other is that TRS can be wired mono balanced or stereo unbalanced which makes it more versatile as a connector.

@@GLBProductions I see....is a TRRS 3.5mm connector balanced or unbalanced? I know XLR is balanced.

TRRS is a connector used mainly for mobile devices - it is usually wired stereo unbalanced with the additional ring contact being used for the microphone. It is most definitely not comparable to XLR 😉

@@GLBProductions I understand now. Your quick responses and answers are very much appreciated. Thank you!

You're welcome Keith!

Very glad to hear that, thank you for watching!

You're welcome :)

That's great - all the best with building your system and with your music!

@@GLBProductions thank you. And thank you for all of your help again I greatly appreciate it! I think I am going to have to use a mixer because I need to hear my guitarist thru my stage monitor.

GLB Productions my friend, can I go from my Yamaha mixer to my kc 880 Roland so I can control the volume etc. from mixer, if so would I need to purchase an female to female xlr cable to make this work?

You should be able to make that connection with a normal guitar cable. Female to female XLRs are very rarely used for standard connections as all outputs are male and all inputs are female.

GLB Productions thank you very much I will give this a try tomorrow, I appreciate your time.

+Larry Rufus Glad to hear that, thanks for watching!

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+Jim E You're welcome Jim, glad you are a lifelong learner!

Glad the video was helpful :)

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+Kjjers Brow That's great, thanks very much for watching and supporting the channel!

+Robert Kleiner Thanks for watching, really appreciate your support :)

Yes I remember those - thanks for the comment!

Also in the era of walkmans and analogue microcassette recorders (dictaphones) you could find this 2.5mm sized microjacks in different cofiguration: TS, TRS or TRRS. Didn't like them much, felt too fragile for the task and most of them I came across were with slightly bent tip... mechanically slightly inadequate for the task I would say.

@@Makak0007 the only application I ever saw as a good use for those, were Walkie-talkie headset connections. As a flat mono voice signal was the only thing those tiny plugs excelled at.

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You're welcome, thanks for watching!

GLB Productions Quick question I hope you can advise on... is there a TS or TRS câble with RCA connection available in Singapore? TS or TRS câble (I am guessing either would work) from my audio interface then other end plugs into RCA input left and right. Thanks!

Ready made cables like that are a but difficult to find so people will normally buy an RCA to RCA cable and then use RCA to TS adapters on one end.

Thanks for the contribution :)

+Kat Moore You're welcome, thanks for watching!

Have a look at my video series on DI boxes: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aLlyerZ1sM2veKM.html

+JOUE BIEN TECH Thank you very much for the tip! Unfortunately the projection screens in the university are all 4:3 aspect ratio and if I change it in the programme the images all become distorted. Nevertheless if I ever do a slideshow specifically for video capture I will most definitely begin with it in the 16:9 ratio :)

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Yes it's the same for my Audio-Technicas.

Sorry Charles I don't have any videos on the DBX driveracks. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel!

GLB Productions oo ok thank you much but you need to do us that favor please.

You're welcome, thanks for watching!

Hi Dom, an XLR to TS cable would generally result in an unbalanced signal - an XLR to TRS cable is the correct choice to ensure that the signal is balanced, assuming a balanced output in the first place.

A simple adapter with no electronics inside has no effect on the impedance - however connecting a microphone to a line input typically will mean that you do not have enough gain to bring the mic up to a loud enough volume. XLR to TRS cables are typically used to adapt line level signals to different types of inputs and outputs.

You're welcome, glad the video was helpful. We're fortunate that in the pro audio industry connectors don't change all that frequently :)

Yes you can, although you may have noise issues due to the unbalanced connection.

Hello Hean Lee it depends on how the cables you use are wired and exact topology of the inputs and outputs being connected together. If your church can afford a TF3 I would suggest that you can most certainly afford a couple of Radial ProAV1 or equivalent AV DIs. Better safe than sorry 😉

+ыпвп ыпывкпвч You're welcome, thanks for watching!

+Fabio Kasper You're welcome, thanks for watching.

You can do that but you need to reduce the speaker level signal by around 40dB in order to connect to the microphone input, otherwise it will be overloaded.

Dynamic mics have a very low output signal, anywhere from 0.001 volts to 0.1 volts so they always need what is called a mic preamp - all mixers with XLR inputs have mic preamps built into them, so you don't have to buy anything esoteric or expensive to get great results. You can get stand alone mic preamps but they are not at all necessary. Nowadays the standard way to connect audio to a computer is to use an external USB audio interface - this will have XLR and quarter inch inputs as well as the necessary analog to digital converters, and a USB output to your computer. They are very easy to install and use once you get the hang of them. Given your background I'm sure you'll have no trouble. Let me know if you need more info, either here or via KZfaq PM/Facebook.

Thanks. I'm looking at the standalone preamps precisely because I don't have a mixer (the microphone is plugged directly into the sound card right now), and I'm really only looking to record my voice. If I go on Amazon and look up "solid state amplifiers," I'll see devices that are hundreds or thousands of dollars. However, looking up "microphone preamp" after you mentioned the term did bring up one device called a Rolls MP13 that seems perfect for what I want to do, and it's only $60. I'm also wondering what a patch cable is, and whether it can be used for the connections from the Microphone to the preamp, and from the preamp to the sound card. With Ethernet, a patch cable is wired backwards from a normal cable to network two computers directly without a hub or switch between them, and I have no idea what the term means in audio. The two cables I'm planning to get are manufactured by a company called Mogami. A lot of the other brands available looked dodgy, and I really didn't want to get something that doesn't work well. So what I'm thinking about is using these three items... www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002BG2QI/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002E1P2G/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2U51KSM586401 www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002E28Z4/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A24Y81WDV8WLQ2 To connect this thing: www.amazon.com/Technica-ATR-1300-Unidirectional-Instrument-Microphone/dp/B01MFGI639/ref=sr_1_2?s=musical-instruments&ie=UTF8&qid=1482821347&sr=1-2&keywords=atr1300 To this thing: www.amazon.com/Creative-Blaster-Audiophile-Performance-Headphone/dp/B00AQ5PK6I/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1482821527&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=sound+blaster+zxr The bad thing about the USB stuff is that, from what I gather, it would completely bypass the Sound Blaster I just paid a lot of money for last year and act as a sound card in and of itself. I'd be willing to do that if there's no other reasonable way, but I'd rather not (perhaps a little bit of sunk cost fallacy on my part, I know). Would the setup I'm planning work a lot better than having the microphone directly wired into the Sound Blaster's 6.3mm port with an XLR to unbalanced 6.3mm cable like I have it now?

Jeremy looking at your set up, your soundcard appears to have a microphone input - you mentioned in your post above that you had to max out the input volume in order to use it. When you did, did you get acceptable results? I'm trying to get your existing setup to work without you needing to buy any extra gear.

GLB Productions Well, I've been living with it for about a year like this, so I guess it's tolerable, but I was hoping it could be better. I have to speak pretty loudly and it doesn't pick up whispers or softer speech very well even if my lips are within a centimeter of touching it. I don't mind it not being able to work at a distance, because it's mounted to a short little stand right next to my keyboard/mouse anyway. One of the things I like about the microphone is the fact that it doesn't pick up all the background noise or echo what comes out of my speakers if something else is playing while I'm talking. A lot of computer microphones I've used have that problem (unless I wear a headset with a built-in microphone, but I don't like wearing a headset because they're uncomfortable). And now I have the opposite problem, that it won't pick up anything unless I'm right on top of it.

It sounds to me as though you simply need a bit more gain - in this case, purchasing the Rolls preamp may be the perfect solution - connect the mic to the preamp using an XLR cable and then use the XLR to quarter inch cable to run into your soundcard. You will need to check if the input to your soundcard is balanced or unbalanced - if unbalanced you can use a regular guitar cable to make the second connection. Mogami is a good brand. Dynamic mics have the advantage of picking up less background noise than condensers, which are featured in virtually all headset mics because they can be made very small and light. In audio a patch cable is any short cable, generally one meter or less. They are wired exactly the same as 'normal' cables :)

That's a good question - if you look at the B-gauge connectors you'll notice that the tip is tapered and the ring connection is recessed, which means that when used in a normalised patchbay there is no chance of the signal being interrupted whilst inserting the plug. I'm not sure when they were developed but it was definitely around the same time as the more familiar a A-gauge.

The term 'aux cable' is very non-specific. I suggest you watch my video specifically on this topic and it will give you some alternatives: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nctkfNyfzZrWk5c.html

Oh sorry for that, but by an Aux cable, I meant a minijack to minijack cable. But could I connect one end to an iPhone or laptop and the other end into a balanced 1/4 jack adaptor which will then go directly into the line in insert point of a mixing console? I saw the other video but I was just curious if this method would also work without causing any problems with audio quality

John I'm afraid I still don't understand what you're trying to do: first of all what do you mean by a "balanced 1/4 jack adaptor"? Secondly what do you mean by "line in insert point"? The line in and insert points on a mixer are two very different things...

Okay well, this must be frustrating for you, I am truly sorry! Maybe pictures will help. So I have a Minijack cable (1. goo.gl/6hiJBC) and I connect one end to a phone or laptop. I then take the other end of the minijack cable and attach a "3.5mm minijack to a 1/4 inch jack adaptor" (2. goo.gl/t5rQ15). So the final product looks like this (3. goo.gl/e8Ah5j). Now I plug the 1/4 jack into the line input on my mixer. Since the "1/4 inch jack adaptor" has a tip, ring and sleeve, would it carry a stereo audio signal from my phone? Or would there be problems with the audio quality?

Ah ok John now I get it. That will NOT work when connected to a balanced quarter-inch input because a balanced TRS input is wired tip +ve, ring -ve and sleeve ground. When you connect an unbalanced stereo signal using the adapter above your input signal is wired tip left, right right and sleeve ground. The end result of this is cancellation of whatever is common to the left and right channels due the common mode rejection in the balanced input. This is one of the most common errors I see when it comes to audio hookups anywhere. What you need is a minijack to two quarter inch unbalanced connectors as shown in the video, and use TWO channels on your mixer. Hope that helps!

For mic and line level signals the wire gauge size is not important because of the tiny amounts of current involved. You can use any size that you are comfortable working with.

Both work well as long as you use quality shielded cable.

@@GLBProductions how to know that? How to read specification of cable?

You just look at the end of the cable to see if it has a braided or spiral copper shield.

@@GLBProductions Oh Thank you! I just find cable that says "oxygen free copper" I guess thats a quality one?

Correct, TS not TRS, ie you can use normal guitar cables.

Hi Chris there is clearly something unusual going on here - perhaps the extra terminal is being used for a purpose other than audio eg sensing/switching. I would contact the manufacturer of the chair and ask them the correct way to establish a wired connection to your device and exactly which cable you should use.

This video will give you more info: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nctkfNyfzZrWk5c.html

Thanks for watching Mario :)

Please watch my video on this subject: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/op98ath8nL7dYKs.html

+Apache Cai It depends on the specific amplifier and speaker that you are connecting - check out my video on connecting an amp in bridge mode: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/br58hdmgt8q9hnk.html

You're welcome, glad it was easy to understand :)

If you don't need the mic feature then a TRS extension will work fine.

thanx

Ah yes those are called insert cables - I cover them in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iLKWa82JrNqqaKs.html

@@GLBProductions okay.

You're most welcome.

Yes the terms applied to this particular connector are legion, and all of them have issues! 'Phone' is too easy to confuse with 'phono' and 'jack' does not differentiate between the plug and the socket. Guitar cable is pretty universally understood but does not differentiate between two and three conductor versions ie between TS and TRS. Fortunately most professional sound engineers understand TS and TRS! Those 2.5mm plugs scare me a bit - they seem really easy to bend, and impossible to repair if they go wrong...

In the computer industry in Texas at least, we generally refer to the 3.5mm jacks as eighth inch jacks, and the 6.3mm jacks as quarter inch jacks... for fairly obvious reasons. However, I've never heard anyone add the word "plug" after jack, and I've definitely never heard it called a phone connector, although perhaps the artist/audiophile community might use those terms. Colloquially, I've heard a lot of people call the 3.5mm a headphone jack, or just "jack" with no other descriptors because it's so ubiquitous. Another thing I hear people doing around here is using the word "jack" to replace the word "plug," "port," or "connector." As in telephone jack, RCA jack, Ethernet jack, component jack, etc. I suppose we might call it a jack plug if we were trying to emphasize that we were talking about the male part of the connection, but I hear people use "male jack" and "female jack" to do that fairly often. If you talked to most people around here about a phone connector, they'd probably scratch their heads and think you wanted an RJ11 cable after pondering it for a moment.

Jeremy Andrews Yes there are tons of variations on these names in different parts of the world. The words plug and socket are added after the word jack to differentiate the male and female versions of the quarter inch connector respectively. So jack plug = male jack and jack socket = female jack. However you really should not use the term jack professionally as it doesn't distinguish between balanced and unbalanced versions of the connector. At the end of the day each region has its own norms which is part of the colour of our industry, just like the words tube and valve, sidewalk and pavement etc ;) Being in Singapore I work with artists and engineers from all over the world so need to be versatile.

Mono/stereo and balanced/unbalanced are two different things: for your application you can use either a single stereo, unbalanced cable or two mono unbalanced cables. The outputs on most keyboards are unbalanced - if they are balanced they will usually be on XLR. Check your manual to be sure. Mono balanced cable is also known as microphone cable 😁

@@GLBProductions Thank you. What will happen if I insert two mono balanced 1/4 cable in digital piano?

In most cases it will simply create an unbalanced connection. As I said - check your manual: if the outputs are unbalanced there's no point using balanced cables.

@@GLBProductions Ok, Thank you. Piano is older, Ill try to find manual on internet.

Maaf tapi saya bukan ahli elektronik konsumen.

That's just where I got the image from 😉 However the connector was originally used for telephones so would probably have been used in railway communications too.

@@GLBProductions Oh, okay. I guess that makes sense :-)

It's due to the combination of inputs and outputs you are using - the headphones output is designed for headphones, not to connect to the input of a powered speaker ;)

Hmm, I'm not sure if I can be of much help here because I don't and have never owned an iphone. However in my experience any set of earphones with a 3-pole/TRS connector will work in the newer 4-pole/TRRS sockets. The reason for this is that the tip and first ring are still audio left and right, the second ring being used for the headset microphone. So connecting a TRS connector to a TRRS socket will just ground the second ring, leaving your audio intact. What happens when you try connecting with no adaptor?

+Blake-Technology! Thanks for the information - thinking back I do recall seeing these small plugs used on 2-way radios!

+GLB Productions Glad I could be of help. You mentioned it is a bad idea to use 3.5mm to XLR cables to connect iPods to mic points, but is there a good way to just connect a device such as an iPod directly to a powered speaker w/ an XLR input?

+Blake-Technology! The fundamental issue with this is that the iPod has an unbalanced stereo output, whereas the mic input is balanced and mono. The *best* way to do this is to use a stereo to mono DI box with a mic level output such as the Radial ProAV1 - this will ensure that 100% percent of the original signal gets through. Alternatively you can use a minijack to 2xXLR cable but there are many possible issues here - levels will not match and you will only be getting one side of the stereo signal.

+GLB Productions Thanks for the advice, maybe I will consider the DI or just getting a decent compact mixer.

+Blake-Technology! 2.5mm connectors also are sometimes used for ir blasters on tv tuners but most use 3.5mm probably because they are more mass produced than they used to be. i know the tv tuner on my computer still uses the micro connector and you can still get radios that use them too. even though they are not common.

Hi there Peter :) 1. I'm not sure I understand your question, but you can use TRS to connect a source to a mixer IF the output of the source is balanced. Likewise you can connect a mixer to powered speaker with TRS if the mixer has a balanced 1/4" output and the speaker a balanced 1/4" input. 2. No - all insert points are wired TRS. Inserting a TS plug all the way will prevent the signal from passing through. 3. One is a 3-pole connector and the other a 2-pole.

@@GLBProductions i need to use ts to connect it to personal moniter mixer so i need to change from insert to be direct output without effect the mixer . can i use it ? 2. so if i used Trs to connect guitar or from power speaker to mixer or from amplifer to mixer will not be effect right ? so i can use it to connect the mixer with Trs ?

@@GLBProductions please i have another question how many meter i can connect from mixer to drum or guitar or sound Ts or XLR like for example can i use like 30 meters

Unbalanced TS connections should not be run more than 5 meters. Balanced connections like XLR can be run very long distances - 100m or more if necessary.

What audio input connector does your GoPro use?

@@GLBProductions mic adaptor

Yup, but mic level only - line level will likely cause distortion. Do some test recordings to verify.

Thanks for the comment, glad you found the video helpful. 300+ is pretty hopeless for any sort of one on one attention although big lectures do have their uses. all the best for your future! (and don't believe the hype about gold-plated everything ;)

I don't recommend that as typically you won't have enough gain and the smartphone input is not designed to work as a mic preamp - either use a USB microphone or run the mic through a mixer first.

+Nikos-A-Music Thanks for getting in touch! The best way to do this is through a stereo to mono DI box such as the Radial ProAV1. My video review shows how this works and the results: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n6qkhraDysytkZ8.html

Thanks a lot, I'll check the video out now. Keep up the awesome work, you have my support. :)

+arbin sharma Thanks for the suggestions. I already have a video on the Sennheiser Evolution 100 wireless system, just search my channel :)

ok thanks

+Putraz Audio Team You're most welcome.

Hi Jegs nice to hear from you. The balanced/unbalanced requirement applies only to cables carrying low levels signals ie mic and line level. Speaker cables are almost always unbalanced, having only a hot and ground connection. There is generally no need to have a balanced connection at this point in the signal chain because there is no signal gain applied at the speaker end - it has already been done by the power amplifier. Hence any noise picked up will not be amplified further. In addition, as the signal strength here is very high, any interference picked up will generally be inaudible due to the very high signal to noise ratio. So don't worry about it :)

Ahhh! Well that makes more sense! Thank you for the fast response!! You do a great job man! Keep it up!

I'm sorry I don't understand your question.

@@GLBProductions I think he means that his lavalier mic system has a stereo out.

+Cris Valk Hello Chris! The answer to your first question is yes, it will sum the stereo signal to mono. Note that a minijack to 2xjack cable is technically not a Y-cable because it does not split one signal into two - it takes a stereo signal and separates it into two connectors, as opposed to having it on one TRS connector. The answer to your second question is no - just connect to the mixer's line inputs and make sure that the volume on your headphone output is turned up to maximum :)

+GLB Productions Thanks Bruno! But if the Y shape cable is not technically a Y cable...which is a Y cable? What's the difference between splitting the stereo signal (and how do you do it?) and having the Left and Right signal on two separated connectors?

+Cris Valk Yes it is indeed y-shaped :) A Y-cable has the same type of connector on all three ends - for example TS to 2xTS and is designed for splitting a mono signal into two. This is of course playing with words to some degree but when I hear the term 'signal splitter' I always think of something that takes one input signal and outputs two identical signals that are copies of the original signal. An unbalanced stereo signal of the type that we use in headphones has a total of three components: left, right and ground. So a split stereo signal would have a total of six components: two left, two right and two common ground. When you separate a stereo signal into two connectors you do not increase the number of signals, you simply arrange them in a different way physically. A minijack is a stereo signal: tip left, ring right and sleeve ground. Two TS jack plugs can also carry the same stereo signal: the first plug is tip left, sleeve ground; the second plug is tip right, sleeve ground. Hope that helps?

+GLB Productions Yes it did! Because for splitting usually I think as DIVIDE...so in audio terms splitting is intended for duplicating (even if I don't understand why someone in a live situation wants to duplicate a signal,sincerely) :) Ah for the headphones output I thought that it has a different impedance matched basically for headphones....for this matter I thought I would need a DI :)

+Cris Valk There are a number of reasons to split signals in live sound - the biggest one is to send separate signals to the monitor and FOH consoles, another would be to have one feed for the FOH sound and another for live recording. Headphone outputs are already low impedance in order to drive headphones. However they are unbalanced so if you wanted to send such a signal a long distance you would need a stereo DI. However you already know that I do not recommend using headphone outputs for anything other than headphones ;)

Excellent points, thanks for your contribution!

It depends if the cable is TRS to XLR male or female - for mixer to recorder you'll need a TRS output and an XLR input on the recorder. Remember that this is usually NOT a stereo connection, so you'll need two such cables if you want to record in stereo.

Yes you can use any verbal shorthand that works for your city/region. In my part of the world we often use 'minijack to quarter-inch' because there is only one type of cable that contains these two types of connectors in pro audio. The same type of cable with a TRS in place of the minijack is referred to as an insert cable so there is never any confusion.

Hello Eddy, I'm afraid I don't quite understand what you mean by "modify four insert trs jack to two ts (tip & ring) jack". Which mixer are you using?

I'm using Mackie VLZ4 1642. I'm connecting 4 microphones to chanel 1-4. I want to insert a compressor to those microphone channels. The problem is my mixer doesn't have subgroup insert and I only can buy one compressor at the moment. I was thinking about soldering 4 Y-cables together. Will this be OK to do?

No I don't think that would work! The best approach for you would be to insert the compressor on the main mix inserts. Alternatively you could connect the compressor inline between your mixer and your amplifier.

Thank you for your help Good thing I ask you first.

You're most welcome, let me know how it works out!

Not necessarily - just use the mixer for the purpose for which it was designed 😉

@@GLBProductions then it becomes limited 😳, I think it’s best to buy a better one🤔 so I have options” with those connections you mentioned.

+Cris Valk Haha actually I was trying to avoid having to record the audio separately - it makes for more post-production work! However there is no doubt that that gives the best quality. If you connect to two mono channels you must pan them hard left and right IF you are running a stereo PA system - if mono they they should both panned centre. Yes, some mixers have unbalanced stereo inputs on RCA connectors - however they still use a separate connector for the left and right channel. No way to get around that I'm afraid ;)

+GLB Productions Actually,you don't have to record audio separately...you can simply extract it from the video and then do the editing...once you're done reattach it to the video :) Ok but why with all headphones output you can use only one cable to connect them?or maybe the signal splits internally?

+Cris Valk Yes, that is an unbalanced stereo output - you asked about unbalanced stereo inputs ;)

Ops,sorry Bruno!

***** No worries my friend :)

+Derian Hartmann Sorry that is not possible at this time.

+meir Thanks for watching!

A very professional job! 👍🏻 I'm not familiar with the TRRS and TRRRS connectors as they are not commonly used in sound reinforcement. However I can tell you that it is always best to start out with both ends of the cable grounded, so begin with your version #2.

@@GLBProductions Thank you for the reply. These plugs have become the standard for digital audio players (DAP's) and portable DAC/Amp devices.

For mics and line level cabling the wire gauge is not important - just be sure to buy quality cabling from an established brand like Belden, Klotz, Canare etc.

@@GLBProductions sir thank you, i post a message on you facebook account, i sent there the type of cable i had, its a LAPP brand data cable, but it cosist of 2 wires and a braided shield. That's good right?

I'm not familiar with LAPP brand so cannot advise.

+Cris Valk Hello Chris, thanks for your input as always! I left out the insert cables mainly because they are no longer common today, at least in Singapore - many rental companies here no longer use any outboard gear, relying on the software within the digital mixer. The students that I put this presentation together for don't have any compressors or gates - they do have some graphic EQs, but they connect them in line between the mixer and amplifier. Yes the audio on this video is not perfect - I also hear some strange artefacts from time to time. I suspect it has something to do with my screen capture programme but it's not too serious so I just let it be. Ah yes, digital cables... Perhaps I will do a video on those at some point, specifically their application in the pro audio context.

Ah ok,never thought of the rental companies because I usually buy for myself all the cables; ) And the Insert cable is useful even for connecting expression pedals,but obviously this hasn't nothing to do with with live pro sound,I agree on that :) Too bad,yes it's surely fault of the screen capture program...happens even to me...next if I could be of some help,let me know...I would be honored! By the way congrats for you 10k subs...you deserve it ;) Before I leave can I ask you a question on this topic? If I use a minijack TRS to jack TRS from the mp3 player to a single channel on the mixer that accepts TRS,the result would be stereo?

+Cris Valk Yes, if you have any tips on eliminating that noise from my screen capture do please let me know :) Thanks for the congratulations, it's taken several years to get to this point but I'm humbled and give thanks to God. If you use a minijack to TRS cable (ie one connector on either end, the same as the one on the right side of the 'public enemy #1 cables' slide) and connect that to a balanced line input of the mixer, you will usually lose whatever is panned centre in the mix and the tone will not be correct. Remember that the output from the MP3 player is stereo, so you need to use either a stereo channel on the mixer or two mono channels. In any case you need to use either a minijack to 2xRCA or minijack to 2xTS cable. Hope that helps?

Speakon to TS, and make very sure it's speaker cable not anything else...

GLB Productions tanks for the detailed video and for explein clearly.👍

You're welcome :)

Try a regular 3.5mm to 1/4" headphone adaptor - it usually works fine because it grounds the third ring.

GLB Productions I’ve ordered one with 2 bands is that the one you’re saying ?

Yes that one should work.

+Daniel Walters No Daniel they do not - an RCA connector is unbalanced by definition so in order to balance it you would need to run through a DI box. You can then convert the output of the DI box to TRS or just use an XLR cable to make your connection.