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Connector patch cord weirdness

markob

markob

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Mar 2, 2010
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#1
At rehearsal last night I thought I may have fried my Sans Amp DI. One of the guitarist's started unplugging things he shouldn't (typical) and at once I lost audio. My standard worship set up is bass to tuner (powered by One-shot) jumped to Bass Driver DI, 1/4" to SVT III input, XLR out of DI to board (many extensions). I use my amp & a 110 EA as a monitor for myself and the drummer. I first thought a phantom power issue from the board caused the damage (maybe?) No pilot light no signal from DI. Ended up by-passing everything and miking the cab for the remainder of practice. Came home and hooked up everything in my lttle studio and found that my multi-connector jumper was toast and my DI was fine. While trying to trouble-shoot at rehearsal it seems that the XLR line from my DI to an extension was toast also. Can anyone explain what could have happened? Or had this occur to them.
 
#2
If the patch cable was bad, and the BDDI was next in the chain, you're noo going to get any sound into it...thus no sound coming out of it. Or anything past the patch cable for that matter.

Unless you plugged straight into the BDDI you can't say the XLR line was bad...

As for what happened? No clue. Cables go bad all the time.
 
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bassgod0dmw said:
If the patch cable was bad, and the BDDI was next in the chain, you're noo going to get any sound into it...thus no sound coming out of it. Or anything past the patch cable for that matter.

Unless you plugged straight into the BDDI you can't say the XLR line was bad...

As for what happened? No clue. Cables go bad all the time.
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I understand. I've done this a long time. Had many patches fail for no reason at all. I isolated the XLR line completely and it was toast. No signal. That's what was weird. Both the patch and XLR went at the same time.
 

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