The Benefits to Making Your Own Cables
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2024
- This episode answers many questions about how I make microphone, guitar, and other audio cables for my studio. It's often that I skip over a lot of this information, but it has been an important part of running a recording studio.
I give a brief overview of the types of cables I make, but also how I modify them to be a tool in the studio.
Links:
Impedance Mod for SM57/mic cable: www.recordingmag.com/resources...
Here is the snake head that I use: www.redco.com/Redco-MB2.html
Microphone cable: www.redco.com/Mogami-W2552.html
XLR Male: www.redco.com/Neutrik-NC3MXX....
XLR Female: www.redco.com/Neutrik-NC3FXX....
For more go to: www.creativesoundlab.tv
Best audio channel on UA-cam. I love your videos. Thanks so much for covering the topics that are hard to find info on!
Hey Ryan great video as always! It's amazing how you make seemingly boring topics such as cables so entertaining to watch
Yeah, I have no idea how I do it. I feel like such a geek sometimes.
Great stuff as always, Ryan. Very informative and resourceful.
Thanks!
glad your around dude, very useful information.
Dear Ryan- First of all, I admire your work. Great videos- I always enjoy your work.
You referrer to the craft of soldering and this is a craft. I have made lots and lots of cables for my own equipment and for a living. Props for Neutrik...
Just some small tips from watching this. Awoid the pointy edges, on the XLR you show with the resistors, by making shure to solder the wire and then the termianal before you solder them together. Perhaps use solder rich on rosin.
When soldering always use the lowest amount of heat in the shortest time possible. The situation you describe with the angled connector where the solder crawls up the wire can be a symptom of to much heat applied.
Tech's have a tendency to have soldering irons who is too hot ;-)
Just like input levels you don't want too hot solderings- You can damage the insulation or "dry out" the soldering joint so it breaks during time and are root cause for bad connections.
You can in some cases benefit from using a "heat shunt"- just a alligator clip or metal clip placed on the wire between the solder and insulation to absorb the heat before it heats the wire.
Just like any other craft, practice and preparation is key ;-)
Make shure your wires and terminals is clean and always fits nice together, without stress, before soldering.
Always apply heat for the shortest amount of time possible. All soldered joints should be nice and clear in the surface with out points or cracks. Dont use to much solder in a solder, it dosent make the sound more heavy ;-)
Thanks Martin for those tips! Great comment.
Superb video .I really enjoyed this.Steve from uk
Knowing how to solder is definitely a must in this world. First day at my current job, my boss said, "Okay, make me an XLR cable, but with one end being two TS cables." Luckily I learned a lot of this at CRAS. hahaha I would have been in trouble!
Hi Ryan, Thanks for the video. I wanted to point out a few things that help me with cables production. I use rosin to flow solder onto my connection points. Rosin core solder is good but my best results I use additional Rosin and a good silver solder. Flowing a connection should take less than 5-15 seconds with this method. A good clean tip 33 watt soldering iron is mostly what I use.
your channel is really cool man. thanksks for all your videos
I really really enjoy your videos and your DIY style ,you do a great job. I just want to tell you something about soldering. Soldering iron is there for one reason - hold it together and NOT make a contact with components.Make sure you use as much contact area as you can an then solder.
Hi Ryan, Neutrix has a Male to Male and Female to Female XLR connectors. Taking them apart, and make a Male to Female with Pads installed. Label with db of reduction. You can use this to make Phase Inverters as well. Cheers Randy
That's a great idea. So you can change the gender on one side to get a female to male ?
For sure they do, and I thought I was the only guy made what he required, boards that don't have Pads and Phase Inverters can if you need them.
Hey! Nice content as always. I really enjoy your diy approach on everything. I have a question. I have an hybrid configuration, My console (soundcraft 200 sr) has unbalanced insert, what would you recommend to connect outboard gears on it? When the signal comes back I can witness quite a big a drop of db... I think there's no simple solution and would need some kind of device that change that revert the signal out of my gear back to unbalanced or to use something to reamplify the loss of signal... with the risk of degrading it... or just forgeting about using the insert with all my balanced gears and go converter out ->balanced gear-> console...Cheers from France!
Adding RC zobel network can solve phase distortion on some kind of vocal dynamics microphone.
Cheers from Indonesia
I never buy cables I always make my own for the proper length and choice of conectors, and your are right about were the snake box was located right at the drums that’s what I done as well
sweet def going to be making my own cables for now on.
yeah, tons of advantages.
Ryan what's your take on Quade cable , microphone and line level balanced cable?
Hey Ryan, just a heads up. Neutrik is pronounced "Noy-trick" like Neumann is pronounced "Noy-min". Great video as always.
Don't know that I'll ever change it. Just like Paiste with a long A, instead of a long I.
I would love to see the entire process of making that snake.
We used to make snake heads out of Bud Boxes in the 80’s. Still would be quite cheap with a little work.
I have an Orange bass terror 500 v1, and this amplifier has a hot signal on the D.I output, when I connect an audio interface, I have to use the gain button of this amp at least. Can I use these resistors on the xlr plug to solve my problem?
Hey quick question, what resistor values would a 10 db pad have?
what is the advantage to add register ??? in sound quality and output Gain???
Does the inline resistors in the male XLR cable work with phantom DC power without burning up the resistors?
The padded cable with the 680ohm and 150ohm resistors, specifically.
I've never had problems. At least not that I know of.
Same here. I use XLR couplers to do the same thing.
I would have just given each cable enough slack to plug them in. Then you could shrink tape the bunch at the best spot. No box. As long as there's enough cable, done deal. Less connections.
I was curious as to what you put around the cables to keep them together.
I wouldn't put the Pad resistors into the actual cable, I would rather buy some Hammond enclosures and build myself a Pad-Box. Much easier and you don't mix up cables. But then of course you need a bunch of 10cm cables. So this solution is a bit more expensive. But as I'm using Sommer Cable and Hicon anyway, cost isn't that big of a problem...
Yeah, for me everything is marked and I have a length of cable I used for kick drum every time to avoid service loops. Again, this was just my way of doing it.
if only i saw this then i wouldn't have sold my gen 1 scarlet.
Can the resistors affect the accuracy of the soundwaves?
I don't think so.
djentlover Anything introduced to a signal path changes the signal. The very end result being the sound waves being different than they would have been otherwise.
I did some research and found out why I am soo bad at soldering. Practice as I might, I am genetically incapable of soldering. I don't just sux, my solders are so bad usually get the XLR pin falls out of the XLR connector. Get tested, you too might be genetically predisposed to suck at soldering.
are you a hippie or a tech bro?
you handcraft... but you also solder...
so confused. what is this world? 🤣