Tips

  • Quick Tip: Troubleshooting With a Pair of Headphones

    by Scott Helmke – TC Furlong Audio Engineer and Repair Tech Here’s one of my favorite troubleshooting tools: A pair of headphones (or earbuds) and a TRS to XLR adapter. A line-level output will actually drive a pair of headphones just fine.  Maybe not audiophile-grade, but certainly enough to hear if there’s signal present…