So since I don't own a soldering iron, I had a local retailer make me a cable for my 853's.
I had them chop off the mini plug, and in its place add a mini 5 pin xlr.
I them had them make the extension cable: a female 5 pin mini xlr>two 3 pin mini xlr.
Then today I'm excited to test these puppies out with phantom power, I've got them in DIN running into samson PM4 phantom power adapters into a PS2>AD20 combo.
I crank the stereo up and record. First thing I notice is that it's hard to get levels at all. I get to about -12dB, and record a minute, then play it back.
It's only coming through one channel, the right, and sounds hollow. I swap the channels around to see what happens, same thing, nothing on the left, everything on the right.
I talk into the mics, first the left, it records my voice clearly, but its coming through the right channel. When I speak into the right mic, it clips badly like its overly sensitive and my voice doesn't come thorugh at all.
Then I ran the mics through some AT8531 power modules powered by two AA's and get the same results, so no way its the PS2>AD20.
I am pretty sure its the cable/adapters that I just had made. I spoke with the guy that built it and he said that he may have one of the - cables in the 5 pin on a + pin or vice versa. Is this something that could have damaged my mics? Does anyone know what else it sould be? I am having them look at it on Monday.
I am sooo freaking frustrated about it! I have a show Wednesday that I would like to record with my new setup!