Topic: AKG c422 w/ Custom 12pin Tuchel Right Angle Milspec Cable

[tgakidis]

Anyone who has ever owned an AKG Single Point Stereo mic will tell you the down fall is the honking huge 60 foot stock cable.  I recently built a new shorter 15' cable with a right angle on the s42 pattern box side.  i snaked (2) 5 conductor milspec cables which was more then enough for the 8 conductors needed (see PDF spec sheet with pin-outs below).  The tuchel connectors are not cheap but well worth the lower profile.

Connector Links:
http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/C091%2031K012%20100%202/361-1328-ND/1647585
http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/C091%2031D012%20200%202/361-1296-ND/1647553

[macdaddy]

Nice work. Congrats. I had one made by Peter Drefahl in Germany years ago. Agreed that extra long cable is a pita, though some length comes in handy for me so I can mount on the ceiling in the middle of the room and string the cord back to get the gear bag out of the way in the back corner...

Now if I could just find a protective nipple that would stay on the mic end of the cable...

[Teen Wolf Blitzer]

Nice work Ted.  I love my beefy tube cables you made.  )  On an unrelated note what are your thoughts on 200 feet of xlr?  [4] 50 foot pairs?  [2] 100 foot pairs?  or [1] 200?   It's for a semi permanent installation, meaning only one festival per year.

[F.O.Bean]

Great work Ted!

[H₂O]

Nice!  Fwiw binder-USA sells it's own tuchels as well - I use these exclusively now

[tgakidis]

Nice work Ted.  I love my beefy tube cables you made.  )  On an unrelated note what are your thoughts on 200 feet of xlr?  [4] 50 foot pairs?  [2] 100 foot pairs?  or [1] 200?   It's for a semi permanent installation, meaning only one festival per year.

100' foot snaked is a bitch to coil let alone 200', IMHO.

[SmokinJoe]

Nice work Ted.  I love my beefy tube cables you made.  )  On an unrelated note what are your thoughts on 200 feet of xlr?  [4] 50 foot pairs?  [2] 100 foot pairs?  or [1] 200?   It's for a semi permanent installation, meaning only one festival per year.

100' foot snaked is a bitch to coil let alone 200', IMHO.

If it were me, I'd get Y cables made, something which converts from Tuchel to XLR's on each end, then you can use some channels in the house snake.  8 conductors would break out to (3) channels of 3 pin XLRs.  It's not converting them to "standard phantom powered XLR wiring", it's just using the conductors for it's own purpose. Electrically it would work, you would want to be very careful you don't get the channels mixed up with other channels on the snake.