[sdiy] Tip/ring/sleeve standards?

[Dave Magnuson]

At 10:39 PM 9/7/01 +1000, you wrote:
>Thinking of building something with a stereo socket for 
>send/receive from outboard fx unit, is there a standard for this?
>And, anyone got a fave source for stereo to 2 mono Y cables?
>
>paul perry melbourne australia 


I work on 2 different mixers (one at home and one at the studio I work
at)... they are both Soundcrafts, and the inserts are wired opposite.  One
has Tip=send, the other has Tip=return... so I guess there are no
standards, even from a single company.

I commonly use mono cables in insert points, and there's 2 schools of
thought:  Think of plugging a mono cable into the jack... in your
circumstance, would you rather have the mono cable act as a dirct output,
or as an input that "ignores" (shorts) the send?   I personally like the
direct output option better, so I like Tip=send.  

Of course, when you use ring=send, you can "half plug" the mono cable and
get a direct output as well... but these tend to pop out of the jack at the
most inopportune moments (like in the middle of a final mixdown)

As for the insert cables, I generally buy ProCo... they're resonably priced
and quite robust.  I usually get them from Sweetwater or my local music store

Dave Magnuson


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