[BC] The XLR pinout debate

[Alan Alsobrook]

I continue to say that this debate is somewhat confused.  I first 
noticed Pin 2 being + in some older Otari manuals. I of course was a bit 
confused since it had always been pin 3 to my knowledge. Then I looked 
further in this same manual and their drawings had the center pin 
labeled as #2. This is quite contrary to the way that Switchcraft and 
others number the pins when they build the device. From this I drew the 
conclusion and have stuck with it, that somewhere, some how, someone 
mislabeled the pin numbers and that the actual location of the wires 
have remained the same.
So for me, pin 3 (the offset one in the middle) is still and will always 
be +.

John Buffaloe wrote:

> I'll take pin 2 for $250 Alex.
> 
> John A. Buffaloe
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Mark Humphrey
> 
> Now, on to a bigger debate:  on an XLR connector, should pin 2 be
> wired "hot", or pin 3?  I say 2, but I know some stubborn guys out
> there that will go to their grave insisting it's 3....

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