DMX Cable Vs Microphone Cable - What's The Difference?
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Uploaded by briansredd on Apr 30, 2008
In this video, I try to explain some of the basic differences between DMX and standard Microphone or Audio cable. I don't explain ALL of the differences, but I try to give some important ones to illistrate why it's a good idea to use propper DMX cable for your DMX lighting.
Enjoy!
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thanks for the video!
apnabeat 1 day ago
The main problem with using XLR cables for DMX is the chance of accidently plugging a DMX fixture into a sound desk or any other sound equipment providing phantom power (The real reason the original spec had 5 pins). Doing this has a good chance of blowing something up. The shielding of both XLR cables and DMX cables are designed to absorb the interferece caused by changing magnetic field, usally from mains cables, it is always a good idea to move any data cable away from AC mains if possible.
tsaunders1992 2 weeks ago
This is probably the single most important video I've seen of yours so far! Thanks for solving a problem that's always perplexed me. I'm going to try my hand at some custom lengths and see how it goes...
ThePilbaraPrince 3 weeks ago
you are super awesome .im learning a lot....
rrcammy1967 1 month ago
Great video!!!
DeeJC123 1 month ago
Exceedingly useful video. Line 6 recommend using AES/EBU cabling with their guitar amps, rather than standard/analog XLR. You helped me see the difference between the two. Thanks.
mc85eu 1 month ago
very informative; thank you.
sweetandsimple0817 1 month ago
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH I was about to plug in a regular XLR audio cable to extend the DMX cable at a venue with built in lights but decided to make sure it was OK at the last minute. Good thing I checked. Theyre not my lights and theyre really expensive
Pauliticiann 3 months ago
get to the point sooner man
atuck288 3 months ago 2
Thank you for this video. I just checked all my so called DMX cables, and what did I find?! All bar two of them are made with microphone cable. They were sold to me as DMX cables, (that's also what they were advertised as.) I was wondering why some of my lights weren't working correctly, now I do. Unfortunately I can't remember where I purchased from. Now I've got a big event happening in seven days time and no longer have any cables and not enough money to buy more.
EJWolff 3 months ago