Re: Loopers-Delight-d Digest V01 #404

["anti:clockwise" <anticlockwise@tensionheadache.org>]

my $.02:

if you are handy with a soldering iron you can go to radio shack (or
order thru allied or somesuch) a d-sub housing (male & female, of
course) and wire up your own multipin connector. i did it to wire
up  6 effects from different maufact's into one pedalboard (a
cannibalized $20 mesa boogie thing); but you can use the same principle
for a number of things.

you do have to be a LITTLE careful, but the d-sub (which gives you, what,
i think 26 or 7 points?) is not too impossibly tiny to work with - not
nearly as pad bad as the points on a TT bay, frinstance....

just a idea.... hope this isn't off the point!


rbrt

> Hi MArk- 
>
> I was looking into this a few months ago, since I have a similar
> situation.  Whirlwind has nice multipin connectors available, but
> they're difficult to assemble.  When I looked at having them make
> custom fanouts on multipin connectors, it was going to cost upwards of
> $1000.  I believe ProCo also sells a multipin connector.  A
> 56-pin Elco connector would also work for you, and you can probably buy
> them with the multicore already connected at the connector end. 
>
> I had two stereo, eight audio, and one MIDI cable to connect to my rack,
> aside from all of the interconnections.  I'm really lazy and I
> already spent all of my money on gear and cables, so here's what I
> did:  I assembled all of my drum machines and synthesizers together
> on a folding table with their power hooked up to a power strip and their
> syncs and other interconnections made, like a pedalboard.  Then I
> hooked up individual cables from the various machines to the back of my
> rack, labeled them at the rack end, and wire tied all of the cables
> together into a loom.  So when I break down, I just pull all of the
> plugs out of the back of the rack and put the loom on the table with the
> other gear for transport.  This allows me to connect everything in
> about a minute, whereas it took more than twenty before, and it's not
> such a rat's nest anymore.  I'm glad I did it this way, because I
> find myself creating a new routing paradigm before every gig, and the
> loom makes it easy to reconfigure. 
>
> -Hans 
> > On another issue: I have been
> > thinking of making a big fat multicore cable
> > to connect my rack of er... stuff to all the misc pedals on the floor
> > (a
> > good 20 minutes it take to plug in at soundcheck, by which time...
> > there
> > isnt any!!!) Has anyone done this and found a good connector. It need
> > to
> > take 6 audio/2midi/and various (8) stereo cable pedals (like the
> > vortex
> > ones). I'm thinking of a big old metal box on the rack and a big old
> > metal
> > box on the floorboard... could I use a mixing desk multicore
> > cable....
> > Just wanted other peoples solutions... (When is stuff gonna be
> > wireless???)
> >
> > MArk Francombe Red
> -- 
> Hans Lindauer 
> Engineer, Music Man R&D 
> Ernie Ball, Inc. 
>   
> just what the world needs....

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