Prepping Canare's Star Quad Microphone Cable

46 years ago Canare entered the market with it's high-quality microphone cable. That product was so influential it set the foundation for Canare to expand outside of it's home country of Japan to launch itself as a brand with branches around the globe. Take a look back at history with our engineer Paul as he guides us through what makes it tick.
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[@emach07]

Couldn't figure out how to get that ground wire off for the life of me. Thanks a bunch!

[@johnbravo7542]

If you building an RCA cable (single ended) you can also combine all four wires together, solder it to the pin and your ground is the shield,sounds fantastic with my diy amps,but all my ube amps have single point ground,back to first filter capacitor, in the power supply,no hum,no buzz,but then again I don't design them with all BS "convenience" devices that induce noise to the system.

[@nicolasfieldsoundservices]

thanks for the video. awesome cables!

[@canarecorporationofamerica2831]

Glad you like them!

[@Hermiel]

Video should have been called _PREPPING Canare L-4E6S Star Quad Cable_

[@kevindillinger3699]

If making a Unbalanced RCA can you use all 4 conductors as the signal?

[@LiveFromPFD]

For unbalanced he said it is recommended to combine the white cables with the shield.

[@johnbravo7542]

Yes you can and your shield will be your ground, or you can cut off the whites completely at the bottom where he gathers the shield or you can combine the two white wires to the shield wire twisting both whites and shield together.

[@ThereWasNoFreeName]

Nice video but... 1) please put microphone in same room you are in, don't leave it somewhere in neighbour country. 2) OK so you've cut, stripped and unbraided the cable but... You didn't show us what a pain in the ass is soldering this 4 core monstruosity compared to regular 2 core. I know it because all my cable i made myself are Canare L-4E6S, but i've also soldered other cables (2 core) and those are much easier to work with. Oh and by the way, i still haven't seen any practical advantage of 4 cores compared to 2 outside the laboratory, if used correctly and with proper equipment even regular 2 core sounds the same. Great cable, durable, soft, has great shielding, but pain in the arse to solder it.

[@Hermiel]

You don't need to be in a lab. If you're in an electrically noisy environment then the benefit of L-4E6S should make themselves apparent quite quickly.

[@ThereWasNoFreeName]

@@Hermiel my cables are eunning near to wifi routers and PSUs, providing tons of EM noise. Unbalanced connection is not an option, because all that noise gets caught up, and the difference between 2 core and 4 core is non-existant.

[@Hermiel]

​@@ThereWasNoFreeName I'll grant you that going from unshielded and unbalanced to balanced and shielded is a huge step, and that going from 2-wire to 4-wire balanced cables is a smaller step, but there are times the extra protection is indispensible.

[@Ramsaaaa]

I found these cables quite easy to solder. Dab of flux and higher heat, no problem at all. Only takes a few seconds.

[@ThereWasNoFreeName]

@@Ramsaaaa easy to solder - that's true. The difficult part is to pair them (blue to blue, white to white) and cram them in some smaller connectors. 2 core cables are much easier to work with IMO.