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Grubbah
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Posted: 03 August 2016 at 11:22am |
I'm making a stereo jack to 2 x mono jack cable. Its taking a duel bass pick up and splitting down to a couple of mono jacks.
(for anyone that's interested, low pick up will go to a pre FX DI and the high will go to a post FX DI and then each send linked through to the bassists amplifiers of choice) The question is, I'm trying to think of the best cable to use... I've got a bunch of Van Damme mic cable lying about, so was thinking of splitting the ground on the tails, applying sheave, braiding (essentially to make a couple of mono single core and earth tails). However I can see this fetching a diameter bigger than the 6.3mm of the XLR cable and I wonder how neat it will look... I was then thinking of using some Comus 2 pair, but I think it would be too big.. I can't see a Neutrik TRS actually fitting on the end of a 9mm diameter.. I may trial the first idea, but wondered if anyone had any other suggestions?
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fatfreddiescat
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TRS - XLR male for the long run then XLR female - 2 x TS?
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ceharden
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I would use two lengths of balanced patch or FST install cable. The internal cores of individually jacketed multicores is good for this kind of job. You can easily get two into an XLR or Jack.
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Grubbah
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What would you use to attach the 2 cables together neatly though?
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odc04r
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Heatshrink?
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shagnasty
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MattStolton
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Belden type 8723 is 2 pair and a drain. Wire it star quad to your trs, and then take cores off to unbalanced jacks, with half the drain. Very skinny, cheap and pretty durable.
Heatshrink will be your friend. Also beldon 2203 (iirc) is the same but individual drains. Plenty skinny enough to fit in a jack. I get it in huge quantities from FS cables for pennies. Great in church installs. ... |
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Grubbah
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Ill put a photo later of what I came up with! Thanks for all your suggestions. I also didn't realise you could get 2 pair that's so thin!
Shaggers - can you give me a call or a PM mate. Cheers
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Grubbah
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So, took my Van Damme mic cable; - split the drain and then used 0.75mm heat shrink to insulate for each mono split - used 4mm adheasive lined heat shrink to then insulate and protect the core and drain for each tail. - used 2.5mm braid for the tails so it looks pretty with a healthy dose of adhesive lined heat shrink to keep it all in check Happy with this, as the tails together come in at around 6-7mm which looks in ratio for the 6.3mm diameter of the actual mic cable. Just to test now and make sure its noise free
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dylan-penguinmedia
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Nice job Joe.
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