1. Re: XLR Cable Connection

["Scott Fraser" scottbfraser]

<< a Nagra, but even that couldn't cope with what
could have been volts of RF. My boomswinger had to shift his short
cable end till I got a null and then everyone had to stay in their
places for each take.>>

As an electric guitarist I'm only too familiar with the process of finding =
the quietest compass-point orientation in a studio to tame the hum induced =
into single coil magnetic pickups. Never had it so intense as to intrude in=
to a balanced mic cable. One has to wonder how that much radiated energy is=
 affecting other things, like our nervous systems.

Scott Fraser