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Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@leyrer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>leyrer</span></a></span> this actually makes sense, tho I've only seen <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Neutrik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neutrik</span></a>-Connectors for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/USBc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USBc</span></a>, which are basically an <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/XLR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XLR</span></a>-plug's exterior casing and retention mechanism with said connector i the middle!</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://comfy.social/@PeterCxy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>PeterCxy</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://udongein.xyz/users/lispi314" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lispi314</span></a></span> personally, I think <a href="https://comfy.social/notes/a44ud8ud8d" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">such</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AntiConsumer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiConsumer</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AntiRepairDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiRepairDesign</span></a> should be outlawed, espechally with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/medical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medical</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/devices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>devices</span></a> like a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/wheelchair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wheelchair</span></a>. </p><ul><li>There's no <em>"legitimate reason"</em> why they could not stick with an <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/XLR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XLR</span></a>-style connector. It's just a big ass DC cable that needs to be protected against user error and electric shock but it's not like some industrial machine that has to be safe in an explosive atmosphere where it gets constantly splashed with acid and contaminants...</li></ul><p>At this point I'm convinced manufacturers only do that because they know most wheelchair users are not capable of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DIY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DIY</span></a>'ing something better or afford to hire someone to do it for them!</p>
Dendrobatus Azureus<p>This is the other end of the XLR cable pulled, out of the instrument mixer, where it's normally plugged into Channel two.<br>Of course since a bass guitar is a mono single channel instrument, I only use one channel if I had used a dual Channel effect somewhere in the effect chain, usually at the end, I would have two of these patch cables getting out of that effect, and getting into both ports of Channel two of the instrument mixer </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Soldering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soldering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/XLR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XLR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/patch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/patchcable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patchcable</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/rosinCore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rosinCore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Electr%C3%B3nica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Electrónica</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electronics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>signal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/effects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>effects</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/analog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>analog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/mixer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mixer</span></a></p>
Dendrobatus Azureus<p>The one end of the XLR cable, is plugged into one of my Bass effects, an overdrive </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Soldering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soldering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/XLR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XLR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/patch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/patchcable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patchcable</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/rosinCore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rosinCore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Electr%C3%B3nica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Electrónica</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electronics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>signal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/effects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>effects</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/analog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>analog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/mixer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mixer</span></a></p>
Dendrobatus Azureus<p>Here's the photograph with connector one at the end of the reduced XLR cable </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Soldering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soldering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/XLR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XLR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/patch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/patchcable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patchcable</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/rosinCore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rosinCore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Electr%C3%B3nica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Electrónica</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electronics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>signal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/effects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>effects</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/analog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>analog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/mixer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mixer</span></a></p>
Dendrobatus Azureus<p>Today I decided to create another patch cable, within my long line of patch cables, important for sending signals from effects, whether they be discrete analog effects, or effects which process the signal digitally, then spit them back out in an analog wave.</p><p>It was important to make this cable because I was using an expensive higher grade cable which I need somewhere else. The cable that I used is a standard XLR cable which has ground signal 1 and signal 2. You can go read on Wikipedia why XLR needs that in detail, but it has to do with the length of an XLR cable which can go to 30 m if you need it.</p><p>The signal that I need to carry only needs an unstable connection which means a signal and a ground. My XLR cable is een overkill but I don't have any other cable.</p><p>Enthusiastically I warmed up my trusted Weller soldering iron, waited till it heated up, took my fantastic cable stripper stripped the cable on both ends, prepared the connectors beforehand and started soldering.</p><p>Everything went smoothly I've been soldering since I'm a 7 year old kid. Of course quality control is important so my multimeter was tuned on diode. </p><p>For the uninformed, a diode is a electrical component which only lets current on one side, and then blocks it from the other side. This setting is also used to check the connections &amp; continuity in cables and on ports. </p><p>When I was done something strange occurred. I measured the cable and the mass, the common was open. Checking both sides of the soldering work showed it was perfect. Not believing that there could be disruption in the cable, I stripped one side then measured the cable and came to the same conclusion broken Mass. I caught and stripped another small section of the cable at the other side and still an open Mass. </p><p>So I've had a piece of XLR cable, that didn't ground and I had used that as a stable cable, which had given me all kinds of interesting artifacts, that I alleviated by just stripping out that one piece of cable, years ago.</p><p>Now a regular person would take that cable and chunk it on the side. I on the other hand I'm not a regular person, I started stripping / dismantling radios when I was two and when I was five I had such a skill that it looked like a trained electronic professional had stripped the radio. Are we talking about radios in the Tube era, where hundreds &amp; hundreds of Volts and many Ampères were going through those circuits.</p><p>XLR cable has three conductors; signal one, signal two and ground. I used the white conductor as the new Mass, the new ground and used the red conductor as a signal two, thus making a balanced XLR cable unbalanced because the ground conductor was broken.</p><p>It was a wonderful trip, taking this piece of XLR cable and reusing it again even though only two conductors were usable effectively.</p><p>I may provide photographs later.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Soldering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soldering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/XLR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XLR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/patch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/patchcable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patchcable</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/rosinCore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rosinCore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Electr%C3%B3nica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Electrónica</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electronics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>signal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/effects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>effects</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/analog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>analog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/mixer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mixer</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nl/@figuratum" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>figuratum</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jwildeboer</span></a></span> There's however a reason why USB-C maxes out at 48V DC @ 5A and if you need strain relief and unplug/pull prevention there are <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Neutrik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neutrik</span></a>-Cinnectors"</em> which basically take the keyed shield &amp; latch from <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/XLR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XLR</span></a> and just insert a different plug into those.</p><ul><li>They are quire common and I've seen those for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/USB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USB</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Ethernet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ethernet</span></a> and even <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SDI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SDI</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/HDSDI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HDSDI</span></a>!</li></ul>

I can't thank everyone enough for all their help and input on my quest to find an inexpensive XLR to USB adapter for my Stagg dynamic microphone - so many lovely people on Mastodon and the Fediverse! I'm definitely keen to grab a Pyle XLR-to-USB signal adapter but the only one I can seem to find in the UK (link below) still needs to be shipped over across from the US, so if anyone knows any good UK sellers (or any equivalent item in the UK) for the same price range, do let me know! Thanks! #AskFedi #audiophile #audio #xlr #usb #microphone #podcasting #podcast #podcaster amazon.co.uk/Pyle-Microphone-X

We recently received a replacement for our dysfunctional #bluray player at the #theatre

A #Tascam #MP4K, which has #xlr balanced audio out, as well remote control it via #rs232, or #tcp !

No one has written anything for it that I could find, so I wrote a #FOSS library/cli-in-one in #php, and call it Tasnet!

With it you can:
* power on/off
* open/close tray
* play/pause/stop
* change display time (remain/elapsed)
* even more!
* hack away (copyleft/MIT)

gist.sbcloud.cc/sb/d54f9c4facd

gist.sbcloud.ccTasnet - Opengist

@james

… but on the other hand maybe let’s wait till we test just how good is audio of Røde PodMic USB via USB not #XLR .

Rationale: I bought last week for my upcoming biz trip next month the Røde VideoMic Go II (see attached pic of my unit) and via USB-C it delivers excellent quality including no distortions, limiter and full compatibility with Røde software: so I guess sound quality of Røde PodMic USB via USB will be much better than your XLR experiences on old Røde
PodMic …