Speaker Cable Connectors & Soldering

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Jeff Naylor from Mtroniks in Mesa, Arizona for Expert Village. In this section, we're going to show you how to put on all the different kinds of speaker connectors. We have neutrik, we have banana and we have quarter-inch. We're going to start with a neutrik connector. We have two threaded locks here that actually hold your cable in place. Now that we've prepped and tinned our cable ends, we simply slide them in and screw down these two screws and pull the sheath over it. On the side, this says one-plus here. This is going to be our positive wire. This is going to be the white cable and on this side, they don't really have an indication for minus, but we're going assume it?s the opposite of plus. Just kind of drop them in here and crank that down. These metal tabs. This top piece just pushes down over where we just had our connections. There's your neutrik end. Next we're going to install a banana cable. On the side are holes where we're going to thread our wire through and on the top are two threaded screws that are going to clamp down the wire. So approaching from the side, we're going to take our tin wires and put them in on the side with this hole here. If we're using smaller wire, we'd actually feed it through this hole but since this is such a large gauge, we're going to do is put the wires in here and then actually use a zip tie to tie these up firm here 'cause we don't want this vibrating around. You simply screw 'em down tight with a blade screwdriver. Now the most important thing about speaker cable is that your ends always need to be tinned. We see in these connectors that even though we aren't soldering the ends in, it?s important to have them tinned so that they don't short out. We always have to remember the difference between instrument and speak cable. Remember that. Speaker cable does not have an outter shield, while instrument cable does. In our next section, we're going to discussing mic cables."