Tagged with cables - Personal View Talks http://personal-view.com/talks/discussions/tagged/cables/feed.rss Tue, 05 Nov 24 09:33:35 +0000 Tagged with cables - Personal View Talks en-CA XLR cables topic http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/5537/xlr-cables-topic Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:56:53 +0000 kronstadt 5537@/talks/discussions My setup is real simple: EM320E microphone (I love it, but may also add NTG2 or NTG3) in a Rode blimp on a 3 meter Rode boom-pole going directly into Zoom H1. The question is: which XLR cable would be best bang for the buck? Which one is best in terms of cost/performance ratio?

A friend (sound recordist) recommended Klotz MC5000 xlr cables http://shop.klotz-ais.com/cgi-bin/quickorder/lshop.cgi?action=showdetail&artnum=M5_&wkid=2004g&ls=e so I thought to get a 3m gold-plated version of that, but they seem to exist only in XLR-to-XLR configuration. This would mean that I would need to get an additional XLR-to-3.5mm adapter, but I was told that the more connections there are the more is the loss of sound quality.

Then another another alternative would be something like this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170332397463 Neutrik XLR to 3.5mm

Yet another question would be regarding "balanced" vs "double screened" ... the Klotz MC5000, for example, doesn't seem to be "balanced", but "double shielded" etc.

So which cable would you folks recommend for recording cinematic dialogues, ADR, Foley sound etc?

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