Guitar/effects cables, switching from straight in to right angle jack - help please
As I build my new pedal board, (See here for description and pics http://www.thefret.net/showthread.ph...al-Board-Build ) I find I want to change the jacks on a couple of my perfectly good cables from straight in to right angle. Particularly the guitar cable into the tuner on the upper right, and the return cable to the amph coming out of my MXR Carbon Copy on the lower left. Both are perfectly good cables, and it would be nice not to have to buy new ones. Also, the straight in going into the input of the M9. Though that one is a little too long anyway, and I may just buy a new live wire right to right for that one.
So anyway, I plan on switching out a couple jacks. I have a small soldering iron and some solder (I am going to go with solder and not solderess). I plan on getting a couple switchcraft jacks. http://tubedepot.com/p-226.html or stop in to Guitar Center when I am in Boise on Tuesday and pick a couple up there. I found a decent video demonstrating the soldering process.
But this vid does not address the blue sheathing that comes out of the jacks on my cables (see pic in pedal board thread). Can I just skip that part? If I shouldn't skip it, how is that stuff applied?
Any other hints would be appreciated too. DVM, other modders? Thanks!
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
Amphs: Peavey Classic 30, '61 Fender Concert
Effects and such: Boss: DS-1, CE-5, NS-2 and RC20XL looper, Digitech Bad Monkey, Korg AX1G Multi-effects, Berhinger: TU100 tuner, PB100 Clean Boost, Line 6 Toneport UX2, Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi, DuhVoodooMan's Rabid Rodent Rat Clone, Zonkin Yellow Screamer Mk. II, MXR Carbon Copy Delay
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