PhotographyStage box
When I was playing with the idea of setting up a small home studio I had originally planned to have a separate control and recording room. A multicore cable with two connector boxes at either end is a good way to connect all signals from one room to the other. To keep cost down I chose for a piece of quad pair cable and made the two boxes to have 8 1/4" jacks each. The way it's wired, I have a choice of either TRS balanced, TRS stereo or double mono connections for each of the 4 cable pairs. This is what it looks like:
If you put a TRS 1/4" jack into the A socket of either channel, you have a balanced or stereo connection and you can't use the B socket. As soon as there's a jack in the B socket, the corresponding A socket is switched over to unbalanced or mono. Wiring the darn thing was close to impossible, because the 2 aluminium boxes I used were just barely large enough for the sockets and cable entry:
It's working like a dream, though, and I can hook up balanced mics, stereo headphones or (bass)guitars, all through one single cable.
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2011-08-30 Jeff
Sweet! I would love to see the wireing diagram. Are the sockets wired to switch like that inside or is it all done just by the way you wired it.
Thanks,
Jeff
2011-09-10 Fuzzcraft
The jacks have internal switches that do the switching. Here's a link to a very similar product:
http://www.monacor.de/en/product-detail-page/?artikelid=1274
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