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Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
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Got one on its way, .5m £2.42 posted.
It's only going inside a Rack and won't get trodden on.
https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57776/handsomerik/p1
Learn to solder. DINs are tricky and will cause you to swear but good for the soul.
Dave.
I discovered that standard MIDI cable is actually only two cores and a shield (which is odd- why 5 pin DIN plugs when you only need three pins?) so I already have a couple of feet of suitable cable.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
https://shop.klotz-ais.com/shop/5485-bulk-cables/5476-analog-audio-cable/5682-p0122.html
http://www.rean-connectors.com/en/products/din-cable-connectors/nys322
DO NOT use 3 pin DINs for MIDI! They will not work. The original (mono) DIN was 1, 2, 3 two being common. Stereo needed the addition of pins 4 and 5 and THOSE are used for MIDI. Pin 2 is shield, not common and you might like to leave it off one end.
Slobbering: Have a DIN socket in a table vice to plug into and get some 3mm Slicone sleeving to run over each pin as you solder it. This stops whiskers from causing shorts. Have a swear box handy and it will probably at least pay for the plugs!
Dave.
I got confused there for a minute, but I hadn't twigged that the pins on a 5 pin DIN plug are numbered all ass-backwards (the original three mono pins are 1-3 and 4-5 go in the gaps between them). I'd just glanced at diagrams online, seen that you needed to use the three central pins and assumed they'd be 2,3 and 4, when they're actually 2, 4 and 5.
Never simple, is it?
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
If you want one cover my postage and it's yours.
**ah just seen you've already ordered two, no worries. As you were.**
"Never simple, is it?" Yes. For a DIN tape input on a mono amp, pin 1 is on the left and is "in" . Pin 3 is on the right and is tape out. Pin 2 as always, is common. It was the coming of stereo that caused the confusion.
But don't feel bad my young friend! Even in its time people were confused about the DIN standard and ignorant peeps slagged it off for being electrically of poor design when in fact it was brilliant! They just did not understand that it was a constant current system as against the constant voltage we now all use.
Dave
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Heh! NOW! Whilst you have the bit twixt teeth try some 25 pin D subs and then graduate to the full wiring of a VGA plug. (tip, you don't actually NEED all the wires connected in a VGA)
Well done.
Dave.
(search on Van Damme Midi and you'll find....)
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
My vote for hardest connector to solder is the VISCA - 8-pin MINI din with no solder cups or tags, just flat pin ends, not enough space to get heatshrink onto them and the carrier is a thermoplastic so too much heat and the pins sink into it a bit just enough to prevent proper contact. Every pin has to be connected, and in most implementations two sets of pairs need to be cross-linked.
Tricky on a workbench with a few vices and a Weller soldering station; much, much worse up a stepladder at 3am with a gas soldering iron.
Fortunately I'm never likely to have to do anything more complicated than another 5-pin DIN or a TRS cable (both of which I've had to do this year because of my DD-500).
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.