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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Natural Sound on December 11, 2012, 07:53:48 AM

Title: Shorting plugs for hum balance
Post by: Natural Sound on December 11, 2012, 07:53:48 AM

Hi guys, I know this has been discussed before. However a search of the forum has been less than fruitful. As I recall the term "shorting plug" is a bit of a misnomer. By that I mean that you don

Title: Re: Shorting plugs for hum balance
Post by: Paul Birkeland on December 11, 2012, 08:38:29 AM

Quote from: Natural Sound on December 11, 2012, 07:53:48 AM

By that I mean that you don

Title: Re: Shorting plugs for hum balance
Post by: RickS on December 11, 2012, 09:03:21 AM

This is the information I found very useful:

http://www.bottlehead.com/smf/index.php?topic=586.0

Rick

Title: Re: Shorting plugs for hum balance
Post by: Doc B. on December 11, 2012, 11:59:32 AM

The critical thing here is that we are talking about plugs for shorting the INPUT. Those can indeed (and should be) a dead short. But they are not for loading outputs.

Title: Re: Shorting plugs for hum balance
Post by: Natural Sound on December 11, 2012, 04:58:09 PM

Thanks guys.