Beginner’s guide to connecting audio cables (XLR, TRS, Hi-Z)

In this video, I give you my beginner's guide to understanding and connecting different types of audio cables, including XLR, TRS and TS.

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[BETTERthan_Yesterday]

I really wish I wouldn’t have wasted the last hour watching several other videos! This was more information than all of the other vids combined. Well done my friend!

[noa]

I was so confused before this video and now I understand everything. Thank you very very much.

[bluzman]

Pete, that has to be one of the clearest explanations I've heard. Well done mate. Now subscribed.

[davelindsey]

Literally the first 3 sentences I said out loud, "YES, YES, AND YES!" amazingly great video.

[jozefgeusens]

Well, if you wanna know how things work in connecting music amps and cables and stuff, just watch these 11 minutes!
You might not be an engineer, Pete, but you sure understand what you're dealing with. Thanks a lot!

[geeflat]

You do a great job. You go right up from the basics and yet never talk down to people. My compliments.

[Joy-gvpt]

The way you saved my non-existent career in music! I was so bummed after buying my first dynamic mic and did not get a decent gain in my DAW. I was using an XLR to 1/8" (with a 1/4" adapter) from my mic connected to the interface. I will now buy an XLR to XLR and hoping to get a better gain with my new mic! Thanks!

[srinivasvaranasi]

Thanks Pete. Absolutely necessary to navigate the audio world.

[stevenbradley]

Been looking all over to try and find an explanation to connecting the 1/4 stereo outputs of my synth into an audio interface.This seems to be the only video on youtube or anywhere that explains how to do it via the xlr/line inputs. Thanks so much for explaining it. Crazy that this is literally the only video I could find that answers this question.

[stanleyvo]

Now I understand how to used audio you !

[jimmyblueeyes]

Top banana, buddy. So straightforwardly laid out for me. You've got me itchin' to see if I can start to record. Thanks again, Pete.

[tension]

just what i was looking for, thank you!

[TheGrizzlyKnight]

Thank you!! I was wondering about the XLR > TRS for a "cleaner" looking set-up but I am so glad I clicked on your video and learned that would not use the preamp.

[ExpanderDJ]

Thanks for the overview, just what I was looking for.

[DPDanielPlays]

After hours and hours on Youtube, I findally found a simple video explaining what cables to use to connect my piano to an audio interface. Thank you!

[AshAlmond]

I'm sure many viewers incl myself would appreciate your thorough explanations. Many artists often get confused with the technicalities of connecting instruments to audio interface devices. On behalf of your viewers and subscribers, I would like to thank you.

[bjazz]

You dug me out of a hole! My condenser mic came with a cable having an XLR input on one end, a tiny 3.5mm on the other. So, I then plugged the 3.5mm pin into a 1/4 inch adapter, then inserting that into my audio interface. There was sound at all, but I insisted there should sound becuase this particular cable came supplied with the mic. Thanks to you I now know that I needed to purchase and XLR to XLR cable in order to utilse the pre-amp functionality of my audio interface to get sound from it. The 3.5mm does worki if I plug that into the tiny port on my PC. Thank you very much for your tutorial and for solving my issue. Brilliant 🙂

[khamronchaiyamani]

Very good information, short and precise. This is what I need!

[k-]

YOU HELPED ME OUT SO MUCH. When My wireless IEM's arrived I tried plugging in the TS cable from the headphone jack to the monitor output like an idiot but I didn't know the XLR inputs were hybrid and could take it too!

[rodnee]

Well done this is the only tutorial that explains this stuff. I just bought my first hardware synth. And this is a great help. Thanks