Cable problems

[Kerazul]

looking at buying a Behringer XENYX 802 and Behringer ECM8000 from PE for measurement purposes.. only problem, i cant find a suitable cable on there.. there's a nifty 20ft 1/4" "guitar" cable that looks like it would work, and a 1/4" to 3.5mm mono adaptor.. great right? wrong.. there's no way that thick plug would fit on my x-fi, the line in/mic input is right beside the main speaker out jack.

any suggestions? otherwise i guess i have to look around locally.. which might not result in much, especially with CC buying out radio shack and all

[Sonnie]

Here's an entire page full of them at Parts Express... pick your poison!

Welcome to the Shack!

[brucek]

1/4" to 3.5mm mono adaptor

Remember that a soundcards line-in is a stereo plug.

You need a stereo to mono adapter at the soundcard to 'break out' the left and right channel of the line-in to the soundcard. The single plug end is stereo and the Y-plug ends are mono.

This type of adapter is what I'm referring to and it would fit fine into any soundcard.


Now you can use a 1/4" TS phono to RCA, which is a standard cable. Then get a simple RCA to 3.5" coupler to hook to either the left or right channel of the Y-cable above... Maybe you could even find a Y-cable that had RCA's on the Y-plug ends.

brucek

[Kerazul]

hmm.. complicated i'll just do what i always do when i cant find a cable that works, cut and patch 2 together