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Direct Boxes not working through Snake to SQ7

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Mike Caldwell:

--- Quote from: Ike Zimbel on January 21, 2023, 06:04:56 PM ---
2) Commercially made snake, or wired by a congregation member with an EE?

6) Is the snake XLR-XLR, or one of those newfangled analog audio over RJ45 breakout dealies?

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2 - I sense a bit of sarcasm between the words.

6 - I'm too oldfangled to buy into those breakout dealies.

John Roberts {JR}:

--- Quote from: Nathan West on January 21, 2023, 04:04:49 PM ---It wouldn't work at the board if that was the case - and a microphone plugged into the XLR works fine - not to mention 5 commonly used Direct Boxes and 6th one worked.
I'm telling you - this has me puzzeled.

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If the snake has pin one open, phantom power would not work... Is the mic that works dynamic, or using phantom power?

Another fairly obvious test, do they work using a single known good XLR cable? Of course they will, but this just confirms that the snake is funny. 

JR

Nathan West:

--- Quote from: John Roberts {JR} on January 22, 2023, 01:21:06 AM ---If the snake has pin one open, phantom power would not work... Is the mic that works dynamic, or using phantom power?

Another fairly obvious test, do they work using a single known good XLR cable? Of course they will, but this just confirms that the snake is funny. 


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The Microphones were both Dynamic and a condenser - I was thinking the same thing - all the DIs were passive so they ignore phantom power.

John Roberts {JR}:

--- Quote from: Nathan West on January 22, 2023, 10:26:02 AM ---The Microphones were both Dynamic and a condenser - I was thinking the same thing - all the DIs were passive so they ignore phantom power.

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So just to be clear, a phantom powered mic does work, and passive DIs don't work?  ???

Did you try a known good single XLR cable?

JR

Nathan West:

--- Quote from: John Roberts {JR} on January 22, 2023, 11:17:06 AM ---So just to be clear, a phantom powered mic does work, and passive DIs don't work?  ???

Did you try a known good single XLR cable?

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Yes the Condenser and Dynamic Mics works - The Whirlwind Direct Box works - the Radial and Behringer DIs don't work - and I tried it on multiple sends in different zones -
the XLR was fine as it worked with the Condenser,Dynamic and Whirlwind DI.

I'm scratching my head over this - there seems to be no reason to it.

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