XLR male to 1/8" mini jack adaptor
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Ted Spencer
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Do you have soldering equipment/skills? If so you could buy a short 1/8" cable and an XLR connector from Radio Shack and put them together. Probably cost you about $10 or less, and take <10 minutes to assemble.
There's a wiring diagram in the Sennheiser G2 manual IIRC, which is probably available online.
There's a wiring diagram in the Sennheiser G2 manual IIRC, which is probably available online.
Steve House
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Okay, I'm officially confused. Why would you want to connect a wireless TRANSMITTER to your camera? Shouldn't you be connecting a wireless RECEIVER? Are you really trying to feed the audio output of a Sennheiser receiver to an XLR camera input? If so, you should have gotten the purpose-built cable as a standard part of the kit. If you misplaced it, ... as far as $40 bucks being a ripoff, 1/8 plug $2.50, good quality XLR connector $10.00, a foot or so of cable $2.50 ... worth $25 to save the aggravation of soldering it yourself? I'd say yes, I've got better things to do with my life than spend an hour or so fiddling with tiny wires and my time is worth more than $25/hour, but that's just me. YMMV
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Ummm....yeah, that's what I meant. Receiver.
Steve House
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Senn's part number for the cable is CL100, about $45. Should have come with the kit if you bought a set. The only really hard part about 'rolling your own' is locating the proper 1/8 plug with the screw-down locking retaining collar. As I said above, I'd just order the cable from someone like B&H or FullCompass if I'd misplaced the original and not deal with the hassle.
Ted Spencer
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Many 3rd party lav mics designed to work with Sennheiser G2s, like my Countryman b3, have no screw-down collar. A 1/8" plug will stay put just fine if the cable is properly managed.
As for myself, rather than spending $94 at B&H for a pair, I'm sure I can build 'em myself in 10 minutes for $15 total, tops. To each his own...
Steve House
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$94???? It's $46 at B&H. Not talking about a mic to transmitter cable but the receiver output. Some folks have had problems with a standard 1/8 plug seating fully. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/233893-REG/Sennheiser_CL100_CL_100_1_8_M_Mini_to.html
Jeff Anderson
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markertek has the screw down collars minijacks male and female if anyone needs them. Just installed a break on a b3 with them and they worked great - not much in the way of strain relief though, so I had to do some layered heatshrinking, but it looks pretty good.
Ted Spencer
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I have two G2 lav systems, and plan to equip both with line-level I/O adapters. At B&H it's $94 (for a pair, as I specified) of the receiver-side 1/8" to male XLRs ($47 each). A pair of the transmitter ones are $58.
In a few minutes I could build all four from parts at Radio Shack:
$6.50 each for the four XLR connectors ($26)
$24 for two gold 6' 1/8" to 1/8" stereo cables
Cut the cables to size and solder them to the XLRs.
15 minutes max. 50 bucks.
$102 less than the OEM ones at B&H.
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Noiz2
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Just to add some balance here. Your low balling a bit since those RS XLR's are not great quality so I would move that $10 up to say $15 to $20 so you atleast have a comparable cable to what you would buy from B&H. Second while I'm with you most of the time on the build and save, I'm good with a soldering iron and understand what to do and what not to do and how to check it afterward etc. It's not that difficult but to someone who has never done it I would not recommend "learning" with something so crucial. Make up some XLR's first etc. It is very easy to miswire or short connections, especially with the 1/8" connectors.
So your right IF one can solder well and has done it before. Someone new to it will probably take closer to an hour, then 1/2 hour to undo one end so they can slide the housings on that they forgot to put on first. And maybe another 1/2 hour trying to find the short or 1 hour trying to find the cold solder joint. Or worse when the cold joint starts picking up the local radio station during the shoot.
If your new and you don't have a shoot coming up soon so you can really test your cable AND order one in time if you really screw it up then go for it.
So your right IF one can solder well and has done it before. Someone new to it will probably take closer to an hour, then 1/2 hour to undo one end so they can slide the housings on that they forgot to put on first. And maybe another 1/2 hour trying to find the short or 1 hour trying to find the cold solder joint. Or worse when the cold joint starts picking up the local radio station during the shoot.
If your new and you don't have a shoot coming up soon so you can really test your cable AND order one in time if you really screw it up then go for it.
Ted Spencer
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I'm not suggesting that someone who has no knowledge or experience attempt to do this straight out of the box. Note that my first comment in this thread began with:
"Do you have soldering equipment/skills? If so..."
On the other hand, this kind of soldering is very easy to learn. I'm sure I could train a complete beginner to do it perfectly well in about a half hour unless they were *seriously* all thumbs. People who correspond in tech/gear oriented places like this usually aren't.
"Do you have soldering equipment/skills? If so..."
On the other hand, this kind of soldering is very easy to learn. I'm sure I could train a complete beginner to do it perfectly well in about a half hour unless they were *seriously* all thumbs. People who correspond in tech/gear oriented places like this usually aren't.
moonlitnite
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Hi Ted,
Agreed, but we could never accomplish this one-on-one via this forum. Going through the right gear, how to pre-tin a wire, properly flow solder with flux, etc. - this stuff is akin to learning to tie one's shoes.
Goodness knows if I bent over backwards to explain all the nitty-gritty with due diligence, I'd probably forget to tell them something critical. If we were "lucky", it wouldn't be something too catastrophic like having them use acid flux instead of rosin. However, it would be terrible not to mention that they need to wear safety glasses and have them end up flicking molten solder off the wire into their eye, set down the soldering iron where it catches something on fire, etc.
A pessimist was an optimist, now equipped with knowledge...
Michael
Ted Spencer
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I agree. I wasn't envisioning teaching someone to solder any other way than in person.
I'm sure there are instruction manuals for it though, and if they're well written and precautions are followed, it is perfectly sensible to imagine one could learn to do it well that way.
IMO, a soldering iron isn't any more inherently dangerous or difficult to learn to use properly than a steam iron or an electric drill. Ordinary people have been teaching themselves to use those for quite a while now.
Unfortunately, they've also been injuring themselves with them for quite a while now too...
I'm sure there are instruction manuals for it though, and if they're well written and precautions are followed, it is perfectly sensible to imagine one could learn to do it well that way.
IMO, a soldering iron isn't any more inherently dangerous or difficult to learn to use properly than a steam iron or an electric drill. Ordinary people have been teaching themselves to use those for quite a while now.
Unfortunately, they've also been injuring themselves with them for quite a while now too...