Re: Rewiring a pedalboard, which cables?
Just a tip for the GLS pancake plugs. Use a hobby knife or a small piece of sand paper or emery board to rough up the plating on the solder tabs before soldering. I do that and then do a quick clean with some alcohol and a q-tip. That makes it much easier to flow the solder. Personally, I use a little flux as well but it's not necessary. And with the 2319 cable, you may find that shrinking a short piece of heat shrink over the cable, where it clamps in the plug, will build up the cable so it clamps more securely.
This is kind of an obvious thing, but one may not think about it if they haven't used pancake plugs before ... check the orientation of the plugs before you solder. In other words, if you are connecting two pedals with side inputs, the connectors would be soldered with the tips of both connectors oriented in the same direction (ie, both facing up on the finished cable). But if one pedal has a top connector and the other has a side connector, the connectors would be soldered with the tips facing opposite directions (ie, one tip facing up and the other facing down). The Mogami 2319 is so flexible that you could probably just solder the connectors on with no thought of orientation and just twist the cable to form it. But personally, I prefer to avoid that and get the orientation right when I build the cable.
Good luck. Have fun. It will turn out well.
Originally posted by PFDarkside
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This is kind of an obvious thing, but one may not think about it if they haven't used pancake plugs before ... check the orientation of the plugs before you solder. In other words, if you are connecting two pedals with side inputs, the connectors would be soldered with the tips of both connectors oriented in the same direction (ie, both facing up on the finished cable). But if one pedal has a top connector and the other has a side connector, the connectors would be soldered with the tips facing opposite directions (ie, one tip facing up and the other facing down). The Mogami 2319 is so flexible that you could probably just solder the connectors on with no thought of orientation and just twist the cable to form it. But personally, I prefer to avoid that and get the orientation right when I build the cable.
Good luck. Have fun. It will turn out well.
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