Audio 6 and multi cores

[Xonetacular]

Huh, you can get pre-made Y shaped cables? I should look into that.

Probably, I know I've seen them at one point but I'm not seeing any from a quick search.

[Patch]

Thanks Xone - I must admit, I'd intended to solder BOTH cables directly to the board, and deal with the space issues the best way I could.

[Patch]

Cowardice? :P

Says the man that was afraid to stick some heat shrink on a couple of cables!

[mostapha]

There definitely are y-cables. I have a small pile of them.

The biggest issue with y-cables is that they end up really weird lengths for using them like that, and you get to a point where you're using 2 y cablees, 2 F-F couplers and 2 extension cable (F on one side, M on the other) per deck, which is a lot of things to lose or break.

If you basically just solder things together and your soldering skills are decent, it'd at least be more robust…and there'd only be 2 things to collect at the end of the night instead of 12 things that might get separated if you're a bit quick unplugging or if someone else "helps you".

[Xonetacular]

I meant a double Y cable. As in a pair of RCA male connectors that splits to two pairs of RCA male connectors. I've seen them before just can't find any now.

[Patch]

something like this:



Looks like it even has a ground cable attached. Only problem is, this one splits the left into 2 lefts, and the right into 2 rights. No good unless your mixer and AI are VERY close to each other... (But not really a problem if you're gonna solder to the board anyway...)

[mostapha]

Right…hence needing the extension cable.

And the couplers, since everything's male and so are the cables coming off the turntable.

Gay sex/marriage is all well and good for people if that's what you/they're into……but it doesn't work so well with cables without adapters of some sort.

[Xonetacular]

Right…hence needing the extension cable.

And the couplers, since everything's male and so are the cables coming off the turntable.

Gay sex/marriage is all well and good for people if that's what you/they're into……but it doesn't work so well with cables without adapters of some sort.

He's talking about replacing the stock cables entirely so there would be two sets of cables attached to the table.

[Patch]

Yup. I already use splitters - with no problems. Just trying to AVOID using splitters...

[MrPopinjay]

I recently sniped some multicores on ebay- I gotta say I like them. I really like how they separate in the middle.

One thing thing I would like changed though- there's a short cable to the 7 pin socket on the soundcard segment and a long one on the mixer segment. I'd much rather it was the other way around so when there's no soundcard attached you didn't have this pointlessly large cable behind your mixer.