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Dose anyone know where I can purchase 4 and 6 leg through hole 1/4" jacks, such as the kind commonly used as output jacks? I've got a couple amps that need some, one 4 leg for a speaker output, and a couple 6 leg for effects send/return. Looking to get them on the cheap and I can't seem to find them. Thanks!
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Who do you buy parts from? It seems like everybody from AES to Watts T.A. carries Cliff jacks. Your supplier does not have them? -
We might call them 6-leg in idle conversation, but in the industry, we use terms like tip, ring and shield.
In a normal guitar cord, the plug has a tip, and the shaft of the plug, called the sleeve. A plain jack for just that is a tip-sleeve jack or TS jack. That would be two legs to you. Now add the cutout contacts to each of those and you have the four leg one. Various brands of those call the cutout contacts different things, like switched or open circuit/closed circuit.
Your six leg jack is what we call a TRS, for tip, ring, and sleeve. The sort of plug on your headphones is a TRS. It has the tip and the sleeve, and also an extra ring just back from the tip. The extra contacts in the center of the six leg jack are for the ring.
SO if you look for TS and TRS jacks, you are more likely to find what you want.
CLiff is a well known brand of them, so we often call them CLiff jacks even when made by someone else. Rean makes them, Neutrik makes them, and others.
In the USA there are many suppliers. If you are not in the USA, where are you?Education is what you're left with after you have forgotten what you have learned.Comment
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