XLR cable / coffey Sound

[MikeHedge]

so.. RED camera + coffey sound XLR cable with transistor ='d yay!!!

but now that RED998 has had the audio board upgrade, I have a XLR cable that is not meant for the new audio board... right?

should I buy a new XLR cable?

can I upgrade the Coffey Sound XLR cable to work with the new RED audio board?

this is what I bought:
http://www.coffeysound.com/home.php?cat=133&sl=&is_https_redirect=Y

Mike

 

[David Didato]

Did you ever get an answer on this Mike?

 

[Bill Goehring]

I returned my Coffey XLRs with my RED One when I returned it to RED for audio board upgrade. This was last winter, and I knew from reading this site that RED would swap out the Coffey adapters for the new ones. But, since you have already done your audio board swap out, you may have missed your chance.

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

What am I missing here? How could they fix a cable and why would they be the ones to swap them for free? And what is the difference on the new board? I thought it was all internal differences.

 

[MikeHedge]

Bill. neat that swapped them.

the Coffey sound ones had a transistor in them that made them perfect for the old audio board.

 

[Stuart English]

Audio Levels

Audio Levels

On the Rev A audio boards, it was recommended to add a 4 dB pad to operate at industry standard reference levels and provide a suitable signal headroom.

But with the newer Rev B audio boards that 4 dB pad is no longer required.

 

[Bill Goehring]

Bill. neat that swapped them.

Yeah, I thought it was really above-and-beyond customer service that they traded them out for me, even though it was a third-party purchase.
Maybe your rep would still swap with you if you asked. Not really a big deal either way, but I sure appreciated the treatment.

 

[MikeHedge]

so.... remove the transistor?

 

[MikeHedge]

XLR cables from coffey. has anyone removed the transistor? simple to do?

 

[MikeHedge]

anyone? where is the transistor?

 

[Jeff Barklage]

its a resistor, not a transistor.
These are the small blue items with the tiny colored bands [if you have a resistor chart, you can match the colors of the bands to the chart, each band represents a certain Ohm resistance], add them up to get the actual total resistance of the component.
Look close at the photo..the resistors are in between the brass solderied connections on the jack and the heat-shrinked wire.

 

[MikeHedge]

so this... "it's easy to remove the resistor" is not right?

seem like cutting these out would make this not work....

Seems like dozens of people bought these from coffey sound....

I guess I'm gonna buy some new XLR cables
Mike

 

[Jeff Kieffer]

so this... "it's easy to remove the resistor" is not right?

seem like cutting these out would make this not work....

Seems like dozens of people bought these from coffey sound....

I guess I'm gonna buy some new XLR cables
Mike

Hi Mike,

Surely it is. I had made a couple myself for my old audioboard.
With the new audioboard revision, I just took the resistors out to make the cable a straight XLR to Mini-XLR and it works fine.

J

 

[Tony Lorentzen]

Jeff - can you verify that the white lead goes to pin #2 and the green goes to pin #3?

 

[MikeHedge]

hey. the original XLR to mini cable that came from RED did not have the resistor right? I think that's why I went and got the Coffey sound one...

I'm RED998 I got my RED in April of 2008.

Mike