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Title: couple more burn in questions
Post by: ts on October 10, 2005, 07:04:28 PM

so i'm getting ready to burn in my bumble bee cables and ic's and jwmod460's. so i connect everything up, just like at a show, minus the recorder and just let it sit there for 50+ hours? I have an ac adapter for my V3, so i could let it go even longer. but in a quiet room, with no real sound, is there even a signal passing or is it just current that matters :-[ or is it pointless ???

Title: Re: couple more burn in questions
Post by: pfife on October 10, 2005, 08:05:21 PM

my uneducated guess would be that if you have phantom power running through the cables, that would be sufficient...  ???

Title: Re: couple more burn in questions
Post by: ts on October 11, 2005, 05:25:44 PM

Quote from: raoulduke on October 10, 2005, 08:12:33 PM

Tony, you have to run current through the cables to burn them in, so you are right; set the rig up like normal and provide phantom to the mics.  I ran my leegeddy cables for about a day (off and on) before I ran them for a show. 

It doesn't matter if sound is going through the mics, just the actual current flow is what matters.

Tim

thanks tim. thats what i thought. shit, i think i left it on for four days ;D

see you at albany p&f  :)

Title: Re: couple more burn in questions
Post by: rodeen on October 11, 2005, 05:56:46 PM

All this discussion about burning in mic cables has me thinking.  Is there a market for vintage cables?  If burned in cables make a difference in sonic qualities, shouldn't well used cables be in demand?  Also, I'm thinking about starting a burning in service.  Send me your cables and for a nominal fee I'll burn them in for you.