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(B) If one conductor ever fails, you have a backup conductor! This helps eliminate EMI interference, etc. What we have done here accomplishes a couple of things: (A) These two conductors are twisted together inside the cable. Next, solder the twisted red and black conductors to the tip lug on the connector. Then use your needlenose pliers to bend the little prongs to clamp that down. Now solder the braided shield onto the (long) sleeve/ground prong on the connector. making sense now!) and bend them 90 degrees to get them out of the way. Twist the conductors from the red and black cables together (ahhh. Sometimes I use a piece of masking tape to make that crap all stay where you want it while you solder. Slide all that sh!t up the cable so it's not in your way. Slide the barrel onto your cable, and slide the clear plastic insulator onto your cable, and then slide a 2" piece of heat shrink tubing onto the cable. Next, unscrew the barrel off the Switchcraft connector.
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Then strip about 1/2" off each of the two red+black conductors (yes, two conductors - I know "guitar cable only has one conductor plus the shield" - hold your horses and I shall explain). Peel back the braided shield and twist that into something solderable. To assemble, strip an inch off the cable's outer jacket. as long as you're not one of these guys with your pedals all strewn about on the floor where they're going to get stepped on (by drunk singers) or kicked or mauled, but instead neatly velcro'd down in your pedalboard, then 1266A is probably a good bet. But it has WORSE shielding/noise rejection than Belden 1266A.
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Regular guitar cable has a bunch of extra padding/etc to give it substance, and so when your singer walks on it it won't get ruined. NOTE: Belden 1266A is NOT "guitar cable" like the one you use from your guitar to your amp/pedalboard. I don't actually have a pedalboard (I use a TC Electronic G-System) but there's a sh!tload of patch cables in the back of my rack and they are all Belden 1266A shielded cable that I bought at Markertek. You might also want to pick up some Desoldering Braid - if you ever need to undo a connector it sucks up the solder and is a big help.Īs far as cable, it's up to personal preference.
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You can maybe use a hair dryer to melt the heat shrink, but I use this Heat Gun. After you solder your cables to your connectors, you melt the heat shrink tubing over the joint and it helps to strengthen it. You can also get the Switchcraft connectors at Markertek. You want to use Switchcraft connectors as they are bulletproof (no offense to Ernie Ball connectors - I've never used them so I can't vouch for 'em - Switchcraft is what I use). Excludes: Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Turkey, Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Iceland, Jersey, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Virgin Islands (U.S.I agree with Jimmy B.