[Elecraft] Making a Signalink cable for the K3's 8-pin mic connector

[Josh]

You wouldn't use a Y-cable. Why not an input on your mixer? Then use whatever control is convenient in your pile of outboard gear to kill the mic when running digital modes. 

Or pad the mic level back down & use K3 mic input. 

Another topic is why use the outboard gear at all? Gate & limiter aren't necessary with levels set correctly. K3 already has compressor & EQ. I can't deny the rack of gear with blinking lights looks very cool....

73,
Josh W6XU

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> On May 9, 2014, at 4:40 PM, Slava Baytalskiy <slavka at nullserv.com> wrote:
> 
> By "my audio stuff" i mean a mic.
> I'm using a Shure SM58, into a mic preamp, into a gate/compressor/limiter/de-esser into an EQ into a mixer into the K3's line-in.
> So line-in is taken. I can't put a Y cable there because, correct me if i'm wrong, every time Signalink would key up - the mic would go live.
> So that's not an option for me.