[BC] XLRs on the Ampex ATR

[Ron Cole]

As long as the audio does not get Flipped or Rolled passing throught the ATR
Does it really make any differance?

Ron


On 8/15/06, John Holt <jholt at wamu.org> wrote:
>
> My recollection is that Ampex had a "standard" of pin 2 hot for microphone
> inputs and pin 3 hot for line inputs.   Why??
>
> John M. Holt
> Director of Engineering and Operations
> WAMU-American University
> Washington, DC 20016
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>
> broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net wrote on 08/15/2006 10:25:06 AM:
>
> > Ampex ATRs were wired pin three hot. Models 350, 351, 440, MM-1100 I
> > am sure of.
> >
> > I have re-wired my collection for pin two hot.
> >
> > On Aug 13, 2006, at 3:40 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:
> >
> > >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....
> > >
> > >Mark
> >
> > C. Park Seward
> >
> >
> >
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