I built my first cable last night out of Canare MiniStar Quad cable....... things went smooth for the most part I thought. Got it put together, tested it out..... I got signal to pass, but also got some nasty static.
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This is what I did......
Left channel StarQuad cable:
*Stripped both cable ends.
*Twisted the white (hot) wires together on both ends of the XLR (left channel) cable. Chopped off the blue (cold) wires on both ends from XLR (left channel) cable.
*Twisted the ground wire separately.
Right channel StarQuad cable:
*Stripped both cable ends.
*Twisted the blue (cold) wires together on both ends of the XLR (right channel) cable. Chopped off the white (hot) wires on both ends from XLR (right channel) cable.
*Twisted the ground wire separately.
Then connected each cable to it's respective XLR (m) like this:
*XLR (m) left channel: pin2 = hot (white), pin1 = ground, pin3 is jumped (connected) to pin1.
*XLR (m) right channel: pin2 = hot (blue), pin1 = ground, pin3 is jumped (connected) to pin1.
Then.......
*I took the ground from each XLR cable and twisted them together, then connected that ground to the Sleeve of TRS(m).
And finally.....
*3.5mm TRS (m): Tip = hot (white), Ring = cold (blue), Sleeve = ground
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Does this seem right? I'm a cable NOOB.... but I thought that these were the right pin assignments. Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks!!!
Could this be an unbalanced XLR cable > balanced XLR inputs issue?
edit to add: this is a short 12" interconnect.... not a long run of cable.