In my friends house where a group of us gather every two weeks for a few hours playing, the mikes all use balanced cables. I did not realize this until I was loaned a mike with stand clip to make it easier for me to modify a music stand to hold a microphone. This I did, pics can be posted if anyone is interested, but I could not use the mike into one of my guitar amps. Then I remembered a cable I found in my spares box, one end had a balanced connection and the other a standard jack plug. This allowed me to test the mike and stand in my own music room. Mike stands are not very expensive but with drum kit, lots of amps, a PA amp and speaker plus my friends hi-fi system, there is not a lot of space available. Hence my modification work on the music stand.
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The first PA we got was a Marshall valve one..... which made everyone sound like Muse ..... Matt Bellamy would have loved it
If you short pin 3 to pin 1 on a standard mic cable you can use it in any unbalanced jack socket on a guitar \ bass \ keyboard amp
It would probably be a good thing to eventually move on from it for speaker connections though - not because it isn't up to the job at sub-100W levels, but because it's too easy to mix up the cables and connections with signal, and potentially damage something. This was also a problem with using XLRs for speakers, before Speakons became available.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
My pet peave with 1\4 jacks is guitar amp makers using them for everything and then putting the sockets on the back where you can't see them. On a typical guitar amp it's quite possible to plug your push to make footswitch into the speaker output .... I mean come on that's just stupid !
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A hurried setup on a dark stage resulted in much head scratching when the channel select footswitch didn't work. All became clear when somebody noticed the LED channel indicator on the footswitch pulsing when the guitar was strummed - I'd somehow managed to plug it into the second speaker output socket...
You lost me there @UnclePsychosis, please explain...
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