What Are My 5 Most Used Audio Adapters for Live Sound Reinforcement?

Five handy and essential audio adapters that I use frequently for live sound gigs. These adapters help to find solutions and fix problems and just make mixing bands and doing other audio work more efficient. Having options leads to solutions.

Whether it's splitting a mono signal to feed to sources, or switching a TRS balanced connection to an XLR balanced connection to mate with an XLR input. Or switch that TRS 1/4" balanced output to XLR so that standard mic cables can be used for interconnects. An unbalanced cable shouldn't be ran for much more than 20'. And most people don't carry TRS to TRS 1/4" cables, but do carry plenty of XLR microphone cables.
It's also important to understand, an unbalanced 1/4" instrument can unbalance an entire cable run. If you connect a 20' unbalanced instrument cable into a 100' TRS return on an audio snake cable, as explained in the video, you've just unbalanced that entire cable run. It's not just the 20' of the unbalanced cable. It's now that 20' feet plus the 100' of the existing snake cable. The cable itself is not what makes it balanced, but instead the proper cable in conjunction with the balanced I/O circuitry.

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►Hosa CMR-206 3.5 mm TRS to Dual RCA Stereo Breakout Cable on Amazon:
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►Cable Matters TRS to XLR M Adapter on Amazon:
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►Cable Matters TRS to XLR F Adapter on Amazon:
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►Monoprice XLR Male to 1/4in TRS Male Cable on Amazon:
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0:00 Intro
0:10 NL4 NL2 Speakon Couplers
0:52 3.5mm TRS to RCA to 1/4" TS
1:43 XLR Turnarounds
2:41 TRS to XLR Adapters
4:01 Balanced Audio Video Excerpt
4:38 XLR Y Cable
5:45 Sescom IL-19