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Can I do a cable from 3.5mm to XLR but merging both channels?

post #1 of 4
12/20/10 at 10:47am
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Can I do a cable like this?

 

cable

I know i can do it soldering the tip to the pin 2,and the ring and sleeve to the pins 1 and 3 but merged. But if I do it like this, I lost the right side. So merging the tip and ring (left and right) will convert the stereo signal to mono?

 

I guess it cant be done like this, but I wanted to make sure.

 

Thanks in advance.

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post #2 of 4
12/21/10 at 3:41pm

Yikes, no. Audio signals do not work like that. You could potentially fry some of your circuitry doing that as you are essentially creating short circuits.

 

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post #3 of 4
12/22/10 at 8:24am

Everything you need to know:

 

http://www.rane.com/note109.html

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post #4 of 4
12/22/10 at 5:34pm
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Thanks a lot both of you. Especially that page cleared a lot biggrin.gif.

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