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DIY Stompboxes => Building your own stompbox => Topic started by: fogwolf on June 12, 2008, 11:17:47 AM

Title: shielding wires?
Post by: fogwolf on June 12, 2008, 11:17:47 AM
In my reading I've seen a few mentions of needing to shield your wires. For example, in the voltage doubler article (http://www.diystompboxes.com/pedals/vdbl.html) it says:

As the picture shows, you need to shield your input wires or else you might get a "whine" in your pedal signal.

I don't see this in the picture there. There's just a caption that says "MUST shield input wires from jack to switch, switch to PCB.

How do you do this?

Thanks!

Title: Re: shielding wires?
Post by: tranceracer on June 12, 2008, 01:24:24 PM
Here's a pretty good link explaining the shielded wire connections:

http://mrdwab.com/john/Shieldedwire.html

-bK
Title: Re: shielding wires?
Post by: raycroft on June 12, 2008, 01:31:10 PM
I did a search, coz I knew I remembered seeing it "shielding tutorial"  and found this thread:http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=53352.0 (http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=53352.0).  Follow the link by John Lyons.

Have fun!
Title: Re: shielding wires?
Post by: raycroft on June 12, 2008, 01:33:04 PM
oh, well.  I was too slow to post :icon_wink:.
Title: Re: shielding wires?
Post by: fogwolf on June 25, 2008, 04:26:44 PM
Thanks for the replies!!

Quote from: tranceracer on June 12, 2008, 01:24:24 PM
Here's a pretty good link explaining the shielded wire connections:

http://mrdwab.com/john/Shieldedwire.html

-bK