Hey Everyone,
I am new here but I have some questions that I am hoping to sort out. I bought my otari mx 50/50 four track a while back and it works great, but I was looking to cut down on all my crazy wiring. Since I have two other DAW machines I work with. I had decided to wire everything through my patch bay so I could easily patch my preamps to different machines and patch different outputs to different mixer channels. Everything works great except I had not hooked the otari up yet. I bought a relatively cheap unbalanced xlr to mono trs 8 channel snake and replaced 4 of the female xlr ends with male ends so I could have a clean direct lines of ins and outs. When I tested them through the otari all kinds of crazy stuff was going on. I would get one input channel going and then as soon as I plugged in anay other snake connection it would die. Also, my female ends going straight into mixer channels was distorted and didn't accurately represent the channels they were supposed (I would hear channel 1 on 4, etc.)
I already know that it is better to go with high quality stuff, but my main question is, in a snake made by a company like pyle or hosa, are the wires all grounded together somewhere inside?
I bought it thinking they would all be independent of each other, but cannot figure out why they affect each other.
Also, could this be because of the the 3 tip hot soldering configuration?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
