Shorting plugs for hum balance

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Offline Natural Sound

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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


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Reply #1 on: December 11, 2012, 08:38:29 AM

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Reply #2 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

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Reply #3 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.

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Reply #4 on: December 11, 2012, 04:58:09 PM
Thanks guys.


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