Tip t and sleeve s.
Tip ring insert cable.
A trs cable has three conductors vs the two on a standard guitar cable.
1 4 in trs to dual rca insert cable this cable is designed to connect a channel insert on a mixing console to an effects processor with phono jacks.
In this case right ring and left tip.
The main question is whether to add it post fader or pre fader.
A guitar cable is a ts or tip sleeve cable.
The audio signal travels over the tip while the ground uses the sleeve.
Ts cables are commonly called guitar cables because they re mostly used to connect a guitar to an amplifier.
The jack plug at the top is a ts jack.
One side of the line is connected to the metal tip of the plug and the second is connected to a metal ring behind the tip separated and insulated from the tip by a non conducting material.
Ts cables are generally used for mono unbalanced signals.
Trs stands for tip ring sleeve these cables look like a standard 1 4 or 1 8 plug but are separated into three sections the tip at the top the ring in the middle and the sleeve at the bottom.
They are used to transfer sound smoothly from one medium to another and run both left and right mono signals to stereo headphones.
As i said the standard is tip send ring return.
The letters trs stand for tip ring and sleeve and refer to the parts of the jack plug that the different conductors are connected to.
Trs connectors are used wherever it is desired to have two conductors plus a ground in one plug.
Left is usually colored white or sometimes black.
Tip is also left and ring is right if carrying a stereo signal or splitting trs to stereo ts.
This cable is conventionally wired tip send ring return and may be used as a y to split stereo signal into left and right.
Ts and trs jack plugs.
Trs phone jacks can be specially wired with tip and ring connected at the insert end and both conductors going to tip at the distant end.
How to connect a reverb unit to your mixer.
Ts connectors have two contact points separated by an insulator ring.
A tip ring sleeve connector looks like a standard 1 4 plug with an extra section in it.
Use a mm to determine which leg of the split is connected to tip and which is connected to ring and you know which is send and which is return.
Hosa insert cables are great for portable rigs.
Reverb unit is commonly connected in aux sends return in your mixer.
Leads are labeled tip send and ring return to aid in identification.
Take note that in an insert cable the red jack is the ring and the white gray is the tip.
The presence of a plug in the jack breaks normal internal signal flow sending signal out to external devices and returning this signal to the channel.
