Audio Wiring Guide pptx

[...]... experience I’ve gained during decades of audio/ video wiring The Audio Wiring Guide (hereafter AWG) is designed for use by both the amateur and the professional Whether you’re wiring a home studio, a PA (public address system) or a commercial multi-track installation, this book will help you do it better, faster, cheaper, and with fewer mistakes No matter what the size of your wiring project or installation,... your experience level How we’re going to do it Let’s take a trial run now to see how it works Wiring nomenclature is often ambiguous and confusing For example, the word ‘wire’ could refer to any of these: ● ● The individual copper strands inside a conductor The strands and their insulating jacket Audio Wiring Guide 4 ● The cluster of conductors and the shield layer in a mic (microphone) or other cable... use it as a reference manual during your work If one picture is worth a thousand words, think of all the text you’d have to read just to get the information in the illustrations! 7 Audio Wiring Guide 8 The tools you’ll need Wiring doesn’t require many tools, but you do need some specific items Let’s list them now and talk about them Necessary tools aren’t too expensive, nor are they that hard to find and... it’s a big part of correct wiring I use something called a ‘Vacu-Vise’ made by General Tools, but any good small vise will do If possible, get two vises that are self-supporting – one for you and one for anyone else that does work If you can’t find vises with a base that is already attached, mount them on small pieces of wood so they can be moved around easily 13 Audio Wiring Guide 14 The somewhat battered-looking... simply can’t check your wiring without a VOM or some other type of continuity tester Get one each of flat and Phillips head screwdrivers, in each of the following sizes: large, medium, small and tiny (jeweler’s size) For slotted sizes, get a 3.0 mm, a 4.5 mm and a 5.5 mm, plus the jeweler’s sizes For Phillips head, get a no 1, a no 2 and a no 3, plus the jeweler’s sizes 15 Audio Wiring Guide 16 You can get... thin rectangular box around the printing is a line-up guide I made to align the labels on different printers Can’t stretch your budget for printable wire labels? Or maybe you’ve run out of labels at 3 a.m but just have to get the job done? No problem – write on white artist’s tape or ordinary masking tape and then place it around the wire Audio Wiring Guide 26 Then cover your writing with some permanent... The thin hemostatic forceps are great for tiny spaces Just try to keep them away from all 420 Bohemian loving friends, or you may not get them back Figure 1.8 Needle-nose and slip-joint pliers 11 Audio Wiring Guide 12 It’s often difficult to get really micro-point tools, but you can always grind the tips down to fit your needs Heat-shrink is plastic tubing that typically shrinks about 50% in diameter when... shield wire, the drain and shield are sometimes combined in the outer wrapping of copper wire This is shown in Figures 1.3 and 1.4 Figure 1.3 Spiral shield wire Figure 1.4 Braided shield wire 6 Audio Wiring Guide Not so difficult, right? All the concepts in the AWG are explained like this – more than once, in fact, so you can follow along easily and understand every point And the illustrations will... Basic information Introduction I wrote this book out of an ongoing sense of frustration with bad workmanship in audio wiring After 40 years in the recording studio business, the studios I’ve seen that were correctly wired could be counted on the fingers of one hand Often the people who had done the wiring were highly intelligent, motivated individuals But craftsmanship is not synonymous with either intelligence... that’s so large as to be cumbersome when working on small parts At the top of the picture is a 6-inch machinist’s ruler, to give you a better sense of the size of things Figure 1.18 Small metal files Audio Wiring Guide 18 It’s pretty obvious – if you’re going to measure things, you’ll need some measuring tools Different types of tape measures are shown in Figure 1.19, but a regular ruler is also useful The . class="bi x0 y0 w1 h1" alt="" Audio Wiring Guide This page intentionally left blank Audio Wiring Guide How to wire the most popular audio and video connectors . decades of audio/ video wiring. The Audio Wiring Guide (hereafter AWG) is designed for use by both the amateur and the professional. Whether you ’ re wiring