Norman86 wrote: so i have an idea, something i wold like to try.

i want to make a y cable, but with George L cable.

Why not use some proper cable?

From what little i know, TRS would be correct option with a stereo jack.

Waiting to see what others chip in with.

You can solder it, but you have to be careful not to overheat the screen so it melts through the insulator and shorts. WIth a Y cable I'd also put some heatshrink round both cables at the point where the strain relief is.

And yeah, use a TRS plug.

Psean wrote:

Norman86 wrote: so i have an idea, something i wold like to try.

i want to make a y cable, but with George L cable.

Why not use some proper cable?

my whole board is wired with george l's.
which is exactly why i want to use what i have!
plus, it's most definitely "proper" cable.

Alan Ratcliffe wrote: You can solder it, but you have to be careful not to overheat the screen so it melts through the insulator and shorts. WIth a Y cable I'd also put some heatshrink round both cables at the point where the strain relief is.

And yeah, use a TRS plug.

Cool, thanks. i will just use long enough peices that i can strip where i need it.
Im not sure about TRS though. whole reason being that im using two mono sources, and i need them in mono, not stereo.



This is also just an experiment.
i want to see if i can put my original tone from guitar, along with my effects loop return, in parallel. almost like a parallel effects loop.
and if i get it right, how it sounds.
hope this makes sense.. but it makes sense in my head!

Norman86 wrote:

Psean wrote:

Norman86 wrote: so i have an idea, something i wold like to try.

i want to make a y cable, but with George L cable.

Why not use some proper cable?

my whole board is wired with george l's.
which is exactly why i want to use what i have!
plus, it's most definitely "proper" cable.

Ah, so you have some left over? It's solderless though, right? Would it not be better to use cable that's designed to take the heat of soldering? That's what I meant by "proper" cable.

Norman86 wrote: Im not sure about TRS though. whole reason being that im using two mono sources, and i need them in mono, not stereo.

Ah. So you're talking about a splitter cable (2 mono to one mono), rather than a Y/insert cable (2 mono to one stereo)? Then TS is correct.

Alan Ratcliffe wrote:

Norman86 wrote: Im not sure about TRS though. whole reason being that im using two mono sources, and i need them in mono, not stereo.

Ah. So you're talking about a splitter cable (2 mono to one mono), rather than a Y/insert cable (2 mono to one stereo)? Then TS is correct.

Yeah, a splitter cable sorry.
Thanks, i will br trying this soon enough! will report back on how it works / worked / didnt work

Cheers ?

Psean wrote: Ah, so you have some left over? It's solderless though, right? Would it not be better to use cable that's designed to take the heat of soldering? That's what I meant by "proper" cable.

yeah, i have leftover cable! im going to see if i cant get away without soldering it, but im going to have to ruin some cable first to see if i can use the george L in the first place!
but im sure i will get it to work!

Ok just saw this now.

I've soldered those cables. completely simple.
the mixing you want to do is really easy using buffered signal sources. so Effects return and guitar signal need to be coming from a similar low impedance so that no loading occurs. I tried this and all i needed to do was pass guitar through a boss pedal (off). If you want to do this properly, just build a simple 9V powered buffer with 2 inputs and one output.

Of course you could buy the lineselector from boss (LS-2). Which allows you to mix (separate volume controls) or select between them etc. But far more fun having a small build.

Good Luck and please share how this ends.

It has been really busy and hectic round my parts... have not yet gotten round to doing this yet :?
but i will... eventually!