Guitar Cable Adapters

Video Transcript

"In this clip I'm going to discuss different types of adapters that you would need for your cables and your equipment. Often times you'll run into a situation where you need to plug a certain size cable into a plug or an outlet that doesn't fit. Maybe it's the wrong size. For example if you needed to plug a quarter inch cable into an eighth inch outlet. Kind of be out of luck unless you had an adapter. Now, oops, this guy here, you have a quarter inch input where a quarter inch cable would fit. Most likely an instrument cable. And here you have an eighth inch male. So this would be able to plug into an eighth inch outlet. Now conversely here is an eighth inch input that would allow you to plug into a quarter inch outlet. Now notice here there's two bands of black. That implies this is a stereo adapter which you would use usually for headphones because you would have two channels. One going to the left ear, one going to the right ear. If you look at this adapter there's only one band. That means it's mono which means you would probably use an instrument cable and that would go just one direct line through. This adapter for example is two quarter inch cables that would allow you to plug in to one socket. This would be an RCA adapter that would allow you to plug one RCA into two. A splitter, that's often called. And then two types of outlet adapters. This one allows you to take a three prong cable which is usually out of an amplifier. Plug it into a two prong wall outlet. Or take three similar to a power strip and plug it into one three prong outlet."