Silent neutrik cables

[solo4652]

Hi,

I'm in the market for a silent-jack neutrik instrument lead. I've spotted on on the 'net which comes with this warning:


"Please note:

The signal will not be muted with active electric bass guitars which have a tip-ring-sleeve tap to activate the power supply."


Errrr, what? I have a Stingray and a G&L Tribute, both of which are active. I'm not sure whether this lead will work with these basses. Can anybody enlighten me, please?

Steve

[Paul_C]

[quote name='solo4652' post='677022' date='Dec 7 2009, 07:12 PM']Hi,

I'm in the market for a silent-jack neutrik instrument lead. I've spotted on on the 'net which comes with this warning:


"Please note:

The signal will not be muted with active electric bass guitars which have a tip-ring-sleeve tap to activate the power supply."


Errrr, what? I have a Stingray and a G&L Tribute, both of which are active. I'm not sure whether this lead will work with these basses. Can anybody enlighten me, please?

Steve[/quote]

it's telling you that the silent bit won't work with an active bass, and you have two active basses - what's not to to understand ?

there is a switchable Planet Waves jack that works - [url="http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product.asp?id=3892"]http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product.asp?id=3892[/url]

[solo4652]

[quote name='Paul_C' post='677031' date='Dec 7 2009, 07:19 PM']it's telling you that the silent bit won't work with an active bass, and you have two active basses - what's not to to understand ?

there is a switchable Planet Waves jack that works - [url="http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product.asp?id=3892"]http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product.asp?id=3892[/url][/quote]


Two points in reply:

1. Thanks for the link to the switchable Planet Waves lead.

2. Your comment "...what's not to understand? " is a little curt, I feel. I didn't understand the phrase "bass guitars which have a tip-ring-sleeve tap to activate the power supply". That's why I posted the original question.

Steve

[PURPOLARIS]

[quote name='solo4652' post='677055' date='Dec 7 2009, 07:35 PM']Two points in reply:

1. Thanks for the link to the switchable Planet Waves lead.

2. Your comment "...what's not to understand? " is a little curt, I feel. I didn't understand the phrase "bass guitars which have a tip-ring-sleeve tap to activate the power supply". That's why I posted the original question.

Steve[/quote]

My bass is active and I use a silent neutrik cable with no problems. Perhaps mine doesn't have a tip ring sleeve tap

[geoffbyrne]

I use a silent jack of the 'sliding sleeve' type with 3 active basses and it works perfectly with all of them.

G.

[Bottle]

Just thought I'd share some thoughts on the Neutrik Silent plugs.

Works fine with both of my current passive basses, but I've used a couple of active basses, including an Ibanez ATK305, which was temperamental with the R/A version of the plug, because of the reasons outlined above. I also found that the sleeve didn't always disengage when removed from the bass, resulting in a nasty squealing sound from the amp (urghhh, 'orrible ). Apparently, Neutrik have redesigned the jack so that the sleeve is better now, but YMMV with active basses.

I've kinda put my Silent cable out to pasture, I'm using a regular Neutrik R/A plug and rely on my tuner for muting.

HTH

Ian

[solo4652]

[quote name='Bottle' post='678925' date='Dec 9 2009, 11:35 AM']Just thought I'd share some thoughts on the Neutrik Silent plugs.

Works fine with both of my current passive basses, but I've used a couple of active basses, including an Ibanez ATK305, which was temperamental with the R/A version of the plug, because of the reasons outlined above. I also found that the sleeve didn't always disengage when removed from the bass, resulting in a nasty squealing sound from the amp (urghhh, 'orrible ). Apparently, Neutrik have redesigned the jack so that the sleeve is better now, but YMMV with active basses.

I've kinda put my Silent cable out to pasture, I'm using a regular Neutrik R/A plug and rely on my tuner for muting.

HTH

Ian[/quote]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Because it's unclear whether the silent lead will work with my basses, and because the silent lead is £20, I've decided to play safe and go for the bog-standard "noisy" cable. Have to make sure I can get at the mute switch on the amp in that case.