Your Cable Store XLR 3 Pin Microphone Cable (6 feet)-Black

It is a cable....seems fine, not much can go wrong with a cable unless the wire is broken.

I bought this cord back when I was doing voiceover work. I've done roughly 20 years on the air and knew I wanted quality all around, but didn't want to pay a thousand bucks for something so basic. This little mic cable was exactly what I wanted and the price was very reasonable. It's studio quality and plugs into a standard mic connector on a pro-level mixer board. Just be conscious of the length. If this is for studio work it should work fine. For stage performance, you'll probably need something longer. This is a piece of basic gear that every musician or deejay will want in their sound-equipment toolbox. It's a good solid performer.

does what it is supposed to do

First off, I'd like to point out that mine was DOA. One of the wires on one end was not soldered on properly and broke off before arriving. I would have replaced it, and I'm sure Amazon would have gladly complied, but I got a used one from someone else which actually ended up being better, but more on that later. Pros: -It's cheap (not expensive). -Assuming it isn't defective, it would probably be a good pick for someone with a cheap condenser mic or some other XLR device. Cons: -It's cheap, and doesn't feel very solid, and soldering may be shoddy. -While, yes, it is a 3-pin XLR cable, it only uses two of them. One of the pins (negative, I believe) is shorted to the ground. Now, XLR cables have three pins for a reason. One pin is a positive, another is negative and the last is ground. The ground is the reference voltage for both the positive and negative cables. When entering the cable, the signals going through the positive and negative cables are (ideally) identical, but inverted. As the signal passes through and the environmental noise alters one signal, it will do effectively the same alteration on the other considering they are so close. When the signals reaches the other end of the cable, the controller can invert the negative signal, overlay the positive and negative, and the errors caused by noise will be fixed thanks to our good friend Physics. The reason I gave it two stars instead of three or four is that nowhere on the page does it say that it is only a two-wire cable, and the title may even cause some to wrongfully believe that all three pins are actually used as they should be.

Please, do not make the same mistake I made and buy this cable. I got two sets of these along with a Behringer 802usb Mixer and the MXL Cardioid Condenser Microphone. These cables are what Amazon told me everyone else bought after getting that mixer and microphone. Sometimes there is wisdom in following the herd, but in this case it was no good for me. Neither of the cables I got worked for me. Maybe they just aren't cut out for transferring phantom power and will work fine with mics that don't need phantom power. I can't be 100% sure and can only tell you my own setup and how they didn't work for me. What little sound they did transfer, one of the cables would cut in and out if you slightly moved the cable. So in the end, these cables didn't work at all with my mixer or my mic and were of a general low quality. I ended up taking the mic, mixer, and cables into a local Guitar Center (they were nice enough to help me out even though I didn't buy my original mic, mixer or cables from them) and they helped me test out every aspect of the things I bought, because there is always the concern that it's one thing over another. It may be the mic or the mixer or the mixer misconfigured. But in the end, it was just these cables. So spend a little more and get nice cables. I ended up buying the cables from Guitar Center and their lowest end cable worked great. So you could go with the high end brand like mogami or even the lower end like monster and get decent results. But these will not work if you have any kind of similar setup to what I have.