[BC] The XLR pinout debate

[engineermike]

I always check the manual just to be safe.  No sense in guessing.
Later
Mike


Alan Alsobrook wrote:
> 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: