3 Audio connectors and connecting
Before we leave microphones we will clear up a couple of loose ends. Sooner or later you are going to have to recognize, and learn the names of, the different audio connectors. You will need to have an understanding of balanced and unbalanced lines, and you will need to know a little about phantom power.
Audio connectors
Whether it is a microphone, a mixer, a video recorder or a cassette recorder, nothing can work without being plugged into something else. Something that will make your life much simpler is to learn that outputs go to inputs and inputs go to outputs. This sounds very obvious but, faced with a complex piece of equipment with lots of plugs and sockets, like a sound mixer, seeing Line in, Aux ...
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