Hi all. I’m trying to get rid of some old kit from the Hospital Radio station I help at. I know the above is an XLR male/female cable, but it’s a bit unusual, and I wondered what it could be used for. Any ideas would be gratefully received (would help me write an ebay listing for it at the very least).
Thanks in advance!
A hospital you say?
Oh dear. Looks a bit probey to me.
Ha – yes. i didn’t have to wipe it down though, so i think it was unused.
Seriously though – feels like a high quality piece of kit. Our engineer has no idea where it came from or what it was intended for. Bit of a mystery.
Over at our our FB faction I feel El Toro might know that one intimately…….
it’s for plugging a small microphone into, and then angling it at the speaker like you’d get for someone making a speech… or talking on the radio? sometimes the microphones are built in to the end.
Google ‘gooseneck microphone’ or even ‘korg microkorg’
£18 new: https://www.studiospares.com/Microphones/Mics-Gooseneck/Gooseneck-XLR-Male—XLR-Female-30cm-Chrome_703068.htm
Brilliant, thanks for this.
Spooky offers one correct answer. The other is for the spotlight to light up the faders on a mixing desk in the dark.
Yes, in olden (pre-LED) times, mixers really did have special torches (usually using 12V car sidelight bulbs) built into XLR microphone connectors. I suppose they already had a plentiful supply of XLR connectors (used for the microphone inputs). Other mixer manufacturers chose to use BNC (video) connectors for the same purpose.
“XLR gooseneck” is the phrase which pays.
Thanks! I wonder if we had one with that in mind (for outside broadcasts or something like that) but never used it.