Custom -10 db Pad Attenuation Cable

[Alex Weinberg]

For my application I need a ta5f to 3.5mm cable with -10 pad built in. To prevent overloading the camera it would be going to. Is this kind of cable possible to make and where would I be able to source getting one?

[DanieldH]

I came across this:
http://www.uneeda-audio.com/pads/

 

[Fred Salles]

Mmm there would be no space for fitting the resistors inside the plug. Maybe unless you use cms but i am not even sure. You might need to have a small inline “package” along the cable for the resistors. It can be very small as -if I understood correctly- your signal is unbalanced so you just need 2 resistors. 

I use Vishay CMF55 metal film resistors for that purpose. Very silent.

[tourtelot]

FWIW, I have fit 1/8w resistor attenuators inside a Switchcraft  mini-TRS.  Not fun but possible.

 

The Uneeda pages were posted by my good friend Rick Chinn; a brilliant engineer and designer of many Mackie mixing desks.  Cool guy.

 

D.

[Rick Reineke]

 I have padded 3.5mm input plugs with two resistors. If the input jack is not in  a small recess, 3.5mm plugs with large barrels are available, which makes it relatively easy to fit the resistors in.

[Izen Ears]

What value resistors?  And how do you figure that out?!

[Alex Weinberg]

Thanks everyone for the input, I am having the pros at Gotham sound make me a custom cable with the pad.