[sdiy] Tip/ring/sleeve standards?

[Dave Krooshof]

>Yeah... the standard is either
>tip-send / ring-receive
>~or~
>ring-send / tip-recieve.
>(tee hee) but I suppose you KNEW that.  ;^P
>
>(all kidding aside its been done both ways so I guess that means...no
>standard)
>H^) harry

The nice thing with standards is that there are so many to choose from.

The question is:
Do you want to use the Send Receive connector as a direct output aswell,
(tip = send)
or as a second input (bypassing the filters etc.)
(tip = receive)

>
>Paul Perry 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?
Most music stores for guitars seem to have them,
even with coloured plastic rings between tip|ring and ring|socket
so it's at least easy to tell which monoplug is connected to what.


A story about inserts and standards in jackplug pinouts:

I was doing sound on a festival one day. One band insisted on
connecting a cdplayer to my desk with one stereo jack.
They we're German, I', Dutch. I can't speak German at all.
They kept saying "Klinke" a lot, which later turned out to mean jackplug.
By then they were already so pissed off, they trew the plug in themselves.
OK. Then they started the cd, and continued their one-word orders:
Halle, Halle. I heard a accordeon and a lot of reverb and the funny this is
Halle means reverb in German, as I found out the day after. Their
accordeon was recorded in Mono, the Halle was in stereo. The stereo
jack in my desk was in a balanced input. The concept of balancing being
completely alien to them, they started inspecting my desk for inserts,
there weren't any. And as they took over the desk completely,
my revenge was sweet:
I didn't take out the jack halfway (that would have uncancelled it).


Dave