GLS Audio 12ft Mic Cable Patch Cords - XLR Male to XLR Female Colored Cables - 12' Balanced Mike Cord - 6 PACK

just what I was looking for.Thanks

I have purchased GLS Audio Cables in all lengths of XLR and balanced TRS Cables from Amazon.com for a long time. The cables are Well made, Well priced, and have the added value of coming in 6 different, brilliant colors. For me this has provided not only flawless audio connections, but also allows me to route, by color; without having to try and label every cable connection. I have a Master Color Chart. On the rare occasion I have to double color for specific usages I simply add an appropriate colored tape. So in a maze of wires it is much easier to make positive connections and troubleshoot the occasional bad or incomplete patch or connection. There is also the added visual effects, especially under ultraviolet lighting. If you are kin the market for durable, competitively priced, well-made, and visually pleasing cables of all lengths and connections I would not hesitate to look into GLS FIRST!

The colour is easy to identify and right length.

Unlike most claims for various "super-wires" with special molecular crystallization, etc., balanced cables are actually superior to unbalanced cables. They work using a very clever and simple system: Before the signal is fed to the balanced cable, it is split in two, with one instance of the signal being turned upside down (phase reversal), so when Signal A is becoming more positive, Signal B is simultaneously becoming more negative. A and B are then sent through the cable, along with a neutral wire. At the opposite end, Signal B is once again inverted and combined with Signal A. Now, consider a burst of noise that penetrates this cable: It will be picked up by both the A and B cables equally. At the end, when Signal B is inverted, that noise will be inverted, too. When Signal B's noise is combined with Signal A's noise, the equal but opposite versions of the noise will exactly cancel each other out. Magic!Most home equipment uses only two-conductor RCA-style cables for signals, and, if the runs are very short, they can be sufficient to the task. However, longer runs require something more, and that something more is the use of balanced cables. If your system doesn't have balanced outputs, adaptors from unbalanced (RCA) to balanced are available. Better to put your money in them than wasting it on special crystallization or thick plastic insulation that makes a cable look premium but is completely transparent to noise.Balanced cables are used for signals, not power. In nightclubs, you'll see runs of 50 or 100 feet from microphones to amplifiers, etc., with zero extraneous noise. However, they are not practical for high-power use, like speaker wires. For those, give the wire a full twist every several inches and you'll get much of the same out-of-phase cancellation that you do with a balanced system for signals.

I've had these for nearly a year. I record at home and pack up my gear to travel to bands' practice spaces to record them, and these cables are one of the tools I take with me everywhere. I have had a few cables die on me in the past, but these are still going strong after all the use! Each one is working perfectly. The colors are helpful to tell which mic is plugged into which track, or if you are working with other equipment, to tell which cables are yours.The packaging they came in was nice too. Each cable is wrapped with reusable velcro and put in its own ziplock baggy. I recommend these cables for any studio or jam space that needs quick cables in bulk at a good price.