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Cables and Connectors

There are four signal levels and people call all of them "a cable". What is actually inside one, which connector belongs where, and why a stiff cable is often the better one.

Topic
Gear Basics
Level
Intermediate
Format
Lesson
Time
11 min

A cable looks like the least interesting object in a studio and is one of the most frequent causes of a session stopping. It is also, quietly, a component with real parameters that change what arrives at the other end.

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