Members Marko Posted August 1, 2008 Members Share Posted August 1, 2008 TRS = Tip/Ring/Sleeve, and also Stereo, correct? TS = Tip/Sleeve, and also Mono, correct? Can you put a TS cable into a TRS jack and it works okay? What about a TRS cable into a TRS jack? I should know this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members scarecrowbob Posted August 1, 2008 Members Share Posted August 1, 2008 Well the mono stero thing are typical uses for those cables, but... yeah. And of course you can put a TRS cable into a TRS jack. And you can plug a TS cable into a TRS jack and have it pass signal okay. But. You should understand that there are "balanced" and "unbalanced" connections. It is enough to know that balanced connections are mono connections that use three conductors, as in an XLR jack or a lot of TRS jacks. An XLR connector is another jack with three pins. And you will see a lot of cables that have TRS on one end and XLR on the other. I use two seprate cables to connect the two balanced TRS outs from my soundcard to the balanced XLR inputs on my monitors. So a lot of trs cable connects are not "two channels of mono with a common ground"-- they are not stereo. Rather, most things labled TRS are a single, balanced signal. But, of course, htat is not always the case; there are a lot of things (like most headphone jacks) that use TRS to send a stereo signal. Ultimately, the TR and S are three conductors, and you can either send two signals and a ground through them, as with stereo, OR you can send two versions of the same signal plus a ground, as with something that might connect via an XLR mic cable. Yeesh. Sorry for the long reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted August 1, 2008 Members Share Posted August 1, 2008 TRS can be used for things like stereo headphones or stereo signals but were originally designed by the telephone company I believe (Switchboard Operators) but is mainly used for Low Impediance audio connections simular to the XLR plugs. Most patch bays have them to connect effects units together and inputs to sound card recording etc.You can plug in a Mono jack and get a signal in most applications but its only going to be High Impediance. (Be careful where phantom power is involved). There are some other uses like in one of my compressors has a send and return for Side Chaining. A TRS on one end with 2TS plugs on the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marko Posted August 1, 2008 Author Members Share Posted August 1, 2008 Yeesh. Sorry for the long reply. Not at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marko Posted August 1, 2008 Author Members Share Posted August 1, 2008 One reason I was asking is because I was thinking of getting a patch bay to make my Sound rack more accessible for recording (EQs, effects processors, compressor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Majoria Posted August 1, 2008 Members Share Posted August 1, 2008 I'd rather have a balanced (TRS) patch bay and that's what I use in my recording setup. You can use an unbalanced cable in a balanced system and make it unbalanced but you can't use a TSR cable in an unbalanced and magically make it balanced. An unbalanced patch bay will guarantee that all connections are unbalanced in that signal chain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marko Posted August 1, 2008 Author Members Share Posted August 1, 2008 I'd rather have a balanced (TRS) patch bay and that's what I use in my recording setup. You can use an unbalanced cable in a balanced system and make it unbalanced but you can't use a TSR cable in an unbalanced and magically make it balanced. An unbalanced patch bay will guarantee that all connections are unbalanced in that signal chain. Got it. Thanks very much. Edit: Just curious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Majoria Posted August 1, 2008 Members Share Posted August 1, 2008 It should be the same concept as most mixers where the 1/4" accepts both TRS and TS and either will function. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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