Stereo Cables

[cobascis]

On my pedalboard I need to bridge a largeish cap (1+ feet) and my coupler cables won't reach. I have a stereo cable lying around (assuming 2 black slashes means stereo..) and I was wondering if it is perfectly useable for this? I can't check it out beacuse it's at a friends house currently.

[Sloan]

yeah, no big deal

[Haze]

then check it out later? i honestly don't know the answer but it certainly won't hurt to try. the worst that could happen is it could start self oscillation and that might even be fun, WHO KNOWS! even that might not happen, i have virtually zero knowledge of stereo cables

if anything get a cheap 1' patch cable. but why the gap? can't you just move things closer?

[cobascis]

I may be missing something obvoous here... How do you guys set up your cable route on pedal boards? Don't you need a long cable in there to bridge the gap between the first row on the far left to the 2nd far right??



IE small clone to memory boy

[Sloan]

flop the peds and get the small clone next to the memory boy???

[the isaac eaton]

glad to see my gator board put to work

[cobascis]

yeah but when I get another pedal(s) I'll need to set it up like it is.

[Mages]

move the rat above the lpb1 and then move the memory boy to the end.

[James]

Stereo jack sockets have three connections. Two hot, and one ground. The two black rings does indicate it's stereo. All that happens is different parts of the jack plug are connected to different parts of the tip metal tip, so one part touches one hot connection, and the other the other. One of those connection setups is exactly like a mono jack, the other is extra.

If you have a mono jack socket at either end of the cable, all that happens is that only the normal mono signal is carried. Any signal that goes along the cable is ignored at the other end because there is nothing there to receive it.

So all that will happen when you use a stereo cable in this instance is the two mono style connections will carry your signal as it would for a mono cable, and the two stereo parts will be doing nothing. The ground works the same for both.

[Reece]

it's not difficult to work out where to put your pedals. choose an order and then place them around the board in an order where you don't have to "bridge" across.

like so:

saltbooster > big muff > super flange > dano tod > dd-3 > rf-1.

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       ___________________________
      | tod <- flanger <- muff    |
      |  - _             ^        |
      |       ->         |        |
amp <-|RF-1 <- DD-3   saltbooster |<- guitar
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or stagger them, which i used to do:

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       __________________
      | DD-3   flange  sb|<- guitar
      | /    \ /   \   / |        
amp <-|RF-1  TOD   muff  |
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