Reduction into TVC issue

[undertowogt]

Ok, thanks for all this help, I appreciate it very much. You guys went above and beyond on this thread.

 

[undertowogt]

Well issue is solved!! I was thinking about it (constantly). The TVC and REDUCTION worked perfectly with that one DIY Cable, yet the other DIY cable and other professional made cables DID NOT worK, they were thin and lacking bass. So I started to try to mimic that working cable.

form my understanding an UNBALANCED XLR to RCA had to be

RCA END

PIN 1 = Sleeve
Pin 2 = Tip

and on the xlr end

Jump PIN 1 to PIN 3

To solve the issue I wired the cable as above BUT DID NOT JUMP PIN 1 to PIN 3.

now it works perfectly, looks great, nice bass , nice amount of volume.......over all sounds great.

So I guess the "good' cable was miss wired some how, therefore producing the sound correctly

Was I originally wiring the XLR to RCA wrong by jumping PIN 1 to PIN 3? This is how I was instructed to do it.

thanks again for helping me trouble shoot this, impressive costumer service.

 

[Paul Joppa]

The standard RCA to XLR would have :

RCA end - tip to "hot", sleeve to both "cold" and "shield"

XLR end - "hot" to pin 2, "cold" to pin 3, and "shield" to pin 1

So the jumper pin 1 to pin 3 happens only at the RCA end.

Incidentally, this only works from RCA to balanced, not from balanced to RCA.