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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Does anyone know WHY after all these years the Adamas needs a special XLR cable? There has been some discussion of this lately, and I have seen this question a few times. I actually had the same problem/frustration when I got my first Adamas trying to figure this out.
It would seem everything from a switched XLR jack to a circuit that sences the phantom power would be better options than a special cable. The whole idea of the dummy 1/4" plug just seems silly to me also. |
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Location: Scotland | Miles, I'm a little confused here. My SMT works perfectly on phantom power with a standard XLR cable (no ground-link to the shell) and without a dummy plug.
As far as I can tell the reason for the dummy plug is a) if you have a mixer which doesn't supply phantom or b)you want to go from the XLR to a jack input. |
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Location: Shelton, Washington, USA | hmmmm.... xlr works great on my SMT.... using a peavey 600e head (with phantom pwr). have had no probs. perhaps it is as Paul said.... gotta have phantom.... sans phantom, gotta use the plug. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I was just referring to the recent posts and also my own experience. Maybe they have changed something on the newer models. That's kindof why I posted this question... to clarify. Some of the earlier posts on the subject left me totally confused. |
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Location: Netherlands | Interesting. My SMT does NOT give any signal on the XLR, even with phantom power. Only if I plug in the 6mm jack, or of I use that special cable (I assume - didn't try it yet). Yes I agree, it's a little weird. |
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Location: Netherlands | Hmmm... I opened my XLR cable this morning and soldered the #1 pin to the shell, as mentioned elsewhere, but... NOPE! Just some hard banging and cracks when I play. Until I plugged in the 6 mm jack, and then it worked fine again. So - what can be the problem? |
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Ground-to-shell XLR cable