Dear Friends

I'm buying some bulk cable = Canare Star Quad Cable-L4E6S and various
Neutrik connector to start building my own cable first for the fun of it and
second for practicality.

Is there some site were they explain "how to" and give real good pointer?

Alain

Hi Alain,

There are lots of sites on the internet about soldering ( try a Google
search or two ). I found this one which seems OK and should get you started
:
http://www.mediacollege.com/misc/solder/index.html

Also on Neutrik's site http://www.neutrik.com/start.asp go to Technical
Support then Assemblies in the left hand menu. This will give you a list of
their different connectors and associated PDF files that show how the cables
should be assembled and recommendations on preparing the cable ends for
them.

Best of luck!
--
John L Rice


"AL" wrote in message
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Dear Friends

I'm buying some bulk cable = Canare Star Quad Cable-L4E6S and various
Neutrik connector to start building my own cable first for the fun of it
and second for practicality.

Is there some site were they explain "how to" and give real good pointer?

Alain

AL wrote:
Dear Friends

I'm buying some bulk cable = Canare Star Quad Cable-L4E6S and various

Neutrik connector to start building my own cable first for the fun of
it and
second for practicality.

Alain

May I be the first to congratulate and welcome you to the lifelong,
wonderful pursuit of "the audio nose." May your cables never fail and
may you never tire of endless hours of happy soldering! And remember,
don't wash the baby until you've used your Ivory!

In article writes:

I'm buying some bulk cable = Canare Star Quad Cable-L4E6S and various
Neutrik connector to start building my own cable first for the fun of it and
second for practicality.

This is good stuff if you're making mic cables that will be used in
harsh EMI environments, but not as good as other (two-conductor)
cables for most applications. For fun and practicality, get some
Belden 1800F instead. It's great for mics, line level signals, and
digital (AES/EBU) applications. Canare, Gepco, and Mogami also have
excellent two-conductor cables.

Leave the star quad for when you really, really need it. You trade off
mechanical flexibility, capacitance, and difficulty in assembly for
improved EMI rejection that you probably don't need unless you're
aware of some special circumstances you haven't told us about.

--
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lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

"AL" wrote in message
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Dear Friends

I'm buying some bulk cable = Canare Star Quad Cable-L4E6S and various
Neutrik connector to start building my own cable first for the fun of it
and second for practicality.

Is there some site were they explain "how to" and give real good pointer?

Alain


Congratulations. Practice your soldering technique before going ahead,
poorly connected cables could be your worst nightmare. An 'octopus' (Croc
clips on bendy wire & heavy base obtainable from a model shop), holds
cable/plug in place to ease the job. Remember don't ground the xlr metal
shell if they're for SR work.

Mike

canare has a pdf that can help
http://www.canare.com/files/Cat11_p35.pdf

This is good stuff if you're making mic cables that will be used in
harsh EMI environments, but not as good as other (two-conductor)
cables for most applications.

for on-location work this cable can prevent headaches latter

dale

"Mike Rivers"

Leave the star quad for when you really, really need it. You trade off
mechanical flexibility, capacitance, and difficulty in assembly for
improved EMI rejection that you probably don't need unless you're
aware of some special circumstances you haven't told us about.

They are also more difficult to solder, especially for a beginner. If you
are just starting out, it may be best not to use star quad.

Julian