[Ericson2314]

What is the standard? I mainly see XLR but I've stared at far more live equipment than recording equipment.

[tacos]

It's XLR. But even then Americans and Europeans couldn't agree on where to stick the three wires.

This is the 1992 document that finally standardized "pin 2 hot" among other minutiae: http://www.aes.org/publications/standards/search.cfm?docID=1...

[Ericson2314]

Interesting, thanks!