Cable Question

sherpa_man

Let me see if I can explain this.

I have a temple audio pedal board with 4 stereo patch bay. Can I use only one of these for a send and return for my amp fx loop? Maybe with a stereo y cable?

Funkfingers

Much depends upon the facilities of your chosen amplifier. Since you have omitted to name this, it is impossible to answer your question.

sherpa_man

It's a wizard mc25

olafgarten

Yes, get 2 Stereo Y Cables, it should work.

sherpa_man

olafgarten said:

Yes, get 2 Stereo Y Cables, it should work.

I would still be using two of my jacks on my patch bay that way

sherpa_man

Ah get you!!!

ICBM

I don't see why it wouldn't work if you have a Y-cable between the board and the amp, and another between the patchbay and the pedals. You're just running two signals through the same connector, and the ground is common at both amp and pedal ends anyway.

Sporky

Though make sure the cores are individually shielded if you're running lots of gain - you can get crosstalk otherwise.

ICBM

Sporky said:

Though make sure the cores are individually shielded if you're running lots of gain - you can get crosstalk otherwise.

True, but if it's for an amp FX loop there won't be a lot of gain, since you shouldn't be putting overdrive/distortion/fuzz things in the FX loop.

There are still a few amps that use TRS jacks on the amp for the loop...

Sporky

It is unlikely, I don't deny that.

Worst I have encountered was a headset that had an unbalanced dynamic mic capsule sharing a common shield with the headphones - it was impossible to get it to work without phase reversing one earphone. That is a much, much bigger difference in signal level though.