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Alembic products => Owning an Alembic => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: Spoilers! on June 27, 2023, 02:07:42 PM
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This might be a dumb question, but when I read old threads on cables for Series basses there are a lot of recommendations about four-conductor (star quad) cable. When I look at the couple of diagrams for the connectors, there are wires to each of the five pins (ground, neck pup, bridge pup, + and -).
So for the potentially dumb question: if the cable has four conductors, where does the fifth one come from???
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Doesn't really answer your question, but here's the FAQ page on 5-pin wiring. https://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=266.0
Jimmy J will probably be along in a few... he's your huckleberry for questions like that. :)
Congratulations & Compliments on that new-to-you Series I... Rob's the best.
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Thanks!
That is one of the diagrams I had checked. I know I must be missing something with the connectors. I've been checking specs and diagrams on a couple of manufacturers' and vendors' websites and I just can't see where the fifth wire is coming from.
Ken
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Hey Ken,
Pin-1 is the shield so that’s your 5th conductor. Several of the quad cables have unhelpful color schemes presuming you will use them as balanced mic cables. As in: 2 blue wires and 2 white ones. You need to be careful in our application to identify (and mark) the individual wires at both ends so you don’t mix them up.
So yeah. 4-conductors in a shield, and we use the shield wires as pin-1 ground.
Jimmy J
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Thanks Jimmy. I suspected that would be the case, but something seemed wrong about shielding doubling as grounding.
Ken