1/4" to two 1/4" instrument cables

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do they exist?

i have a hosa cable like this but it's RCA (not sure what that means) and it's not thick like a guitar cable is. does this matter?
 
What are you going to use it for? The cable stealth showed is a trs- 2 ts. Which is an insert cable, a send and return. Do you need to take the same signal and split it to two inputs? If so, you need a ts- 2ts cable.
 
FYI- You can split an output with Y cables but you cannot combine two signals to an input.
 
yeah, it's one output to two inputs (my synth to my 8 track)

stealth - the one i have is just like that one. it's a hosa. i think i got the wrong one cause it does say 'send and return' cable.

what does that mean exactly? or what would you use that with?
 
It wont say "send and return" neccessarily. The way a send return cable works is the sleeve of all three jacks is connected. On the trs jack (tip ring sleeve, has 2 bands) The tip is connected to one of the tips on one of the ts jack (tip and sleeve one band). The ring (middle section between bands) of the trs is connected to the tip of the other ts jack. Thus the trs goes into the insert plug on the mixer/buss/rack (whatever). The signal is sent out through the tip going to the ts send jack to the input of the compresso/eq/rack (whatever) then to the output is connected to the return ts jack through its tip and goes to the ring of the trs jack, back into the mixer/buss.
Did I make that simpler, or more confusing?:cool:
 
trim said:
yeah, it's one output to two inputs (my synth to my 8 track)
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What's the point of that? Are you going out of a headphone jack? If you are then you do have the right cable.

If you are trying to take a mono output and want to record it to two tracks for stereo you are just wasting a track. Two mono tracks are just two mono tracks and not stereo.
 
jblount - yeah. but thanks for the info all the same. i'll read that over a cup of coffee later ;)

tex - it's a stereo output jack on my synth. it says output/phones. i know it's already a stereo output, but i thought the stereo would get lost if it's only led into one input instead of two. i wouldn't be recording onto two tracks, just one. i'd have to read my manual again, but there's a diagram that shows that as an option (1 output to two the inputs). so why would they show that if it didn't serve a purpose?

ha. sorry. it's my damn manual i should know. but those manuals are such shit. translated from spanish and chinese and such, it doesn't explain anything really. it just tells and doesn't show, ya know? :/
 
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