« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2016, 03:31:48 PM »
I am wondering if it is straightforward to make my own extensions of various lengths if I get the EN3 connectors and 6 conductor wire. It looks like the jack into Datfly’s Nbox isn’t the regular EN3-female that Nick was using on the older boxes, so maybe I’ll contact Nick for advice.
Thanks Steve! And don’t drink and tape. Oh wait … that’s what makes it fun! Carry on…
Hi Steve -- things have been good! I'm working in the Bay Area now and have more opportunities to tape. The couple of times I've been out, I could have benefitted from a lower profile rig so I'm looking forward to this setup.
Longer cables sounds like a good idea. Maybe I'll hold off ordering the PFA until I get the Nbob cable and decide what I need.
Sorry man. I was out at a show last night and had too much to drink. Wasn't thinking straight. What I have is 5 foot nbobs, not five foot PFAs. What that allows me to do is run stealth straight from the nbox into the nbob's without the PFA(my nbox has a binder connector on it instead of the standard EIN connector or whatever it's called). I then have a 15 foot long extension that I put between the PFA and the nbobs so that I can put my mics up on a stand for running open.
With a five foot long nbob cable, a 15 foot long extension might seem like overkill, but not really. The reason is that when I'm running open, if it starts to rain I need to get the junction point up underneath my umbrella so that it stays dry. The only way to do that is to roll up the slack on the nbob so that the junction is up at the top of the stand. You wouldn't be able to do that if your mics were, say 12 feet high if you extension was only 10 feet long. I've tried wrapping tape around connector/junctions that are exposed to rain and, no matter how well I think I've got the cable/connectors wrapped, the connectors still get soaked if they're not up under the umbrella or down in a bag.
Sorry for any confusion my post last night might have caused. Posting while drunk...not a good thing.
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