Hi everyone new poster here.
I have a quick question about twisted pair installation microphone cable.
When terminating a single FST type cable as a balanced line on XLR connectors, with a white and a blue conductor, what if any is the conventional connection?
What I mean is would it be normal to use blue as hot (pin 2) and white as cold (pin 3) or vice versa?
Here in the US the color pair is generally black and white. Most of the commercially built cables I've seen are wired with black on in 2 and white on 3. This sort of follows the US electrical colors where black, red, and blue are the hot conductors and white is the neutral. AFAIK there is no official "standard" of which color is used where, but building your own to match whatever the local supply has standardized on makes sense. It
is a PITA when you have to open both ends of the cable in order to rewire one because you don't know the standard that was used on that cable.
The cables that Shure used to supply with their mics were wired white on 2 black on 3, but most I've seen are GBW.
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