Top Secret Soldering- XLR Female to Star Quad!

Close -up of XLR connector soldering for microphone cable.
Music- " Acoustic Mood" by Rastop from "Pieces Of Broken Heart"

[@hanndoddi]

Very good demonstration. I usually put a heat shrink around the ground just to be sure wires stay in one place. Take care from Iceland :)

[@michaelrobinson9643]

Close up shots of soldering - A+ for that. Most teachers I see for soldering are showing footage that may as well be from their neighbours window.

[@bt5526]

Man! Finally, someone makes a very nice balanced XLR cable with Canare Star Quad L-4E6S. Very cool, non-BS video with all the focus and detail required to get one through this. Please keep up the great work.

[@donalddavis581]

You can always tell someone who solders a lot.... their fingers are already burned and the heat don't hurt so much! Thanks for the video!

[@eppsberg]

very nice, thanks for the soldering tips, I will now go and cut all my LED lamp connections and make them smaller, you're the best Alexander!

[@michaelrobinson9643]

I was hoping to see you do the twists with a set of lockwiring pliers :P

[@griffincui]

You made it looks very easy, thanks for sharing.

[@train4905]

Superb job sir.well done.excellent video.I learnt really good tips.

[@precisionsoundworksstudio]

Nice vid... super helpful... Thank you for posting!!!

[@rastop1]

dear rupenthesjir, this is perfectly safe way for balanced stuff, as a matter of fact ALL our rental cables don't have shell connection. Proper terminating input XLR involves grounding PIN1 close to chassis ( shell). Only boom poles have shell termination at female side, to prevent any microphones grounding problems ( yes, Schoeps and Sennheiser have them)

[@OitbCZSf0bUiQAMXK2Mz]

Thank you this was really helpful.

[@Mausr]

Thank you so much! Relaxing tunes and all the information I needed.

[@dandotcraig1]

man the music gets hell epic at the end

[@nsmcastillo326]

Very educational... keep up the good work... two thumbs up

[@adamphillips6747]

the 13 people who disliked this must be resellers of cables and realized they just lost sales.

[@rastop1]

Thanks man! I always do that with right angle XLR's. here getting a little lazy...

[@xxxprayerexxx]

Awesome Video!

[@hanndoddi]

Very nice I like Canare cables alot :)

[@rastop1]

Hey, it's Canare Star Quad, very good mechanical/electrical quality.

[@ViralTuber]

The music reminds me of Keola and Kapono Beamer. (Hawaiian brothers)

[@thedeltacoustics774]

Hey, what is that Pik tool you use called? And what is a good soldering clamp stand brand for this? Thanks

[@hanndoddi]

What brand of cable is that BTW ?

[@eddo5617]

Does it matter if which wire color goes onto the connector pins ???

[@rastop1]

not really, main thing is to maintain pin-to-pin consistency :-)

[@ivan868]

Where is the wiring diagram??

[@NickWeissMusic]

Wait I don't get it... Just kidding, great video, thanks!

[@user-im3ry3it7e]

Where is flux? Why so much solder? As for 10 connectors, - iron is way too hot, - better to drill small holes in the pins and drain wire in, then no need to tin wires twice.

[@17th_Street_Preacher]

so realistically..30min per cable for a newbie, 8 cables to do..4hrs :/

[@TheKiUrrr]

Unacceptable

[@BigHeartedMan65]

You lost me at MELTING THE CONNECTOR ...You Iron is MUCH TOO HOT . You use MUCH too Much Solder , Your Wires Are left too Long , Whoever taught you to Solder Lied to you . I see no need for Flux since ALL modern day solder has it in them now . Other than That ..

[@rastop1]

You lost me at Flux comment... Other than That ...

[@gmrpnk211]

I've built class three products for over 12 years and flux is key to a good solder joint. There is barely any flux in the solder itself. The connector isn't melting, the flux from the soldering process is what you see in between the pins and the plastic body. The only thing I would have done is make the wires shorter so the insulation would sit inside the wire support/strain relief better, and add the solder to the connection while heating the barrel and wire instead of filling it and reflowing it.