cjparsons74
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Hi, I'm sure this must have been answered before but I've searched without finding an answer.
Our church's mixer (Studiomaster trilogy 326) has four main aux ouput feeds, each channel can be mixed into any of the aux feeds, and the aux feed has a level control too. You know the score.
We use one of these aux feeds to supply a single mix of foldback where it goes into an active montitor speaker (which has a passive sibling also connected).
We have a multicore 'snake' running between stage and mixing desk. This is wired for XLR. Connections.
The aux feed from the desk has a jack socket connector.
Q1: I presume this is a mono Jack? There are no pan controls on the aux feeds, no spearate L/R knobs etc. Mono seems normal. Am I right?
To patch one of the snake channels into the desk somone has chopped off the XLR connector on the desk-end of the snake and soldered on a mono 1/'4 in jack plug.
I find that unless I waggle the wire & jack 'just right' I get major major hum through the foldback speakers. I don't know whether this is just the soldering job or whether there's something fundamentally awry. It might be the desk I guess, though all four aux send seem to behave similarly.
Q2: To connect the three-wire 'snake' channel to the mono 1/4 jack, I should connect Xlr-pin-2 to the tip and pin 1& 3 + any shield to the ring?
Q3: Is this what people would normally do in my situation? Or should I use a DI box or somthing to connect the aux send to the multicore?
Thanks in advance...
Chris
Our church's mixer (Studiomaster trilogy 326) has four main aux ouput feeds, each channel can be mixed into any of the aux feeds, and the aux feed has a level control too. You know the score.
We use one of these aux feeds to supply a single mix of foldback where it goes into an active montitor speaker (which has a passive sibling also connected).
We have a multicore 'snake' running between stage and mixing desk. This is wired for XLR. Connections.
The aux feed from the desk has a jack socket connector.
Q1: I presume this is a mono Jack? There are no pan controls on the aux feeds, no spearate L/R knobs etc. Mono seems normal. Am I right?
To patch one of the snake channels into the desk somone has chopped off the XLR connector on the desk-end of the snake and soldered on a mono 1/'4 in jack plug.
I find that unless I waggle the wire & jack 'just right' I get major major hum through the foldback speakers. I don't know whether this is just the soldering job or whether there's something fundamentally awry. It might be the desk I guess, though all four aux send seem to behave similarly.
Q2: To connect the three-wire 'snake' channel to the mono 1/4 jack, I should connect Xlr-pin-2 to the tip and pin 1& 3 + any shield to the ring?
Q3: Is this what people would normally do in my situation? Or should I use a DI box or somthing to connect the aux send to the multicore?
Thanks in advance...
Chris