Category Archives: mic cables
No Wonder The Soundman’s Asleep Under The Console!
I try to blog at least once a week about some new innovation or clever device in the pro sound industry. I spent 30 plus years as a “knob twister” and I try to keep up with new ideas. Leave … Continue reading
Making The Case For An XLR Speaker Cable
Many years ago when I worked in the Technical Services Dept. at Duke University, we embraced a speaker cable connector standard that seems to have fallen by the wayside. We used the standard XLR3 connector for speaker cables-the same connector … Continue reading
How Many Times Would I Have Liked To Have This?
Neutrik, the maker of a broad line of audio connectors, has a great new product that every sound person ought to know about. Its a new style of XLR connector called the Convertcon. How many times have you gotten to … Continue reading
Welcome To A New GoodBuyGuy-Speaker Cable Sam
Today we introduce the newest of our GoodBuyGuys.com website, BuySpeakerCable.com. BuySpeakerCable.com is hosted by Speaker Cable Sam , the latest addition to the GoodBuyGuys family. Sam is ready to provide lots of valuable information about speaker cables, speaker cable connectors … Continue reading
When Is A Speakon Not A Speakon?
The addition of buyspeakercable.com to our family of goodbuyguys.com web sites has led to an interesting question regarding Speakon connectors. The Speakon, first introduced by Neutrik (a German company) has become the new standard for professional audio. As with most … Continue reading
The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same
I retired for active involvement in the sound business just at the time when digital mixers were being introduced into the sound reinforcement industry. Consequently, I have observed from the sidelines as this change in technology moved into the live … Continue reading
How Much Longer Will We Need This Analog Link?
When asked about the invention of the automobile, Henry Ford said “If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse.” Ford realized early on that a potential purchaser of his invention had no way … Continue reading
So Long, Ebay
After a year of swimming upstream in a effort to sell our products on ebay, we’ve decided to hang it up. Thru an ebay store called buy mic stand, we have been selling microphone stands using their “buy it now” … Continue reading
Now, That’s One Tough Mic Stand
We’re considering producing some “how to” videos to add to goodbuyguys.com, so I did a Youtube search to get a sense of what might be out there. Not a lot really, so I am hoping that we can put together … Continue reading
We Never Saw This One Coming
For the last couple of weeks we’ve seen a huge spike in microphone stand sales at buymicstand.com and our ebay store “buy mic stand“. We had no idea why. I should have asked my kids! It seems the must-have item … Continue reading