My impulse was to find CAT 6 cable with foil shielded pairs and make a breakout box. Twisted pairs can also help with crosstalk. Shielded Cat 5/6 is perfectly good cable to run line and even Mic level signal through and is cheap. Just make sure you buy the shielded shit. You get 4 pairs and ground in a single piece of Cat cable. 1000' is like $250. and you can wire up breakout boxes in aluminum electrical junction boxes from Home Depot for a few bucks each. XLR style panel jacks fit perfectly in the punchouts of those. You can buy Cat panel jacks, XLR, 1/4" and make what ever you need.TylerDeadPine wrote: Mon Apr 25, 2022 4:25 pmyou can get cable with pairs that are independently shielded - if it's stranded, longevity may be okay.Garth wrote: Mon Apr 25, 2022 2:23 pm Could you send a headphone signal and instrument signal through the same cable? Or would the lightly-amplified signal coming from a headphone amp screw this up? My concern is that if it were like 4 or 5 conductor cable, there would be interference of some kind since nothing would be shielded from each other in this instance.
I'm basically trying to solution a way to get an in-ear signal and guitar output on the same cord w/ out something as wonky as zip ties & two cables (doesn't coil nicely and feels like too much stress on the cable). Two separate cables is strangely way more tripping hazard than the math would suggest, but everyone who's tracked in headphones in a studio knows this already.
This cable does exactly what I want but gets bad reviews for longevity (which should be zero surprise considering who owns this company now). I was thinking 5 pin XLR on both ends into the smallest possible splitter box. So clipped to guitar strap or belt, the guitar would have a short plug-in and then the in-ears too & the multi-conductor cable sends it down to the pedal board side, there to be split back out in to the pedalboard for the guitar and the headphone amp.
Something like this, but look for braided shield instead of the foil - but if it's flexible enough for automation, should be good for you
https://www.wireandcableyourway.com/18- ... -600-1000v
Try the 5 conductor single shield first, if it works out then maybe plunk down the bucks for something like https://www.automationdirect.com/adc/sh ... ul-07-05-1
https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id= ... c-EALw_wcB