So I was bumming around the Moog website, and discovered a multipak cable set for 35 USD. Not a bad price for a couple five foot cables, a couple three foot cables, and four one foot cables. But they are neither color-coded nor do they seem to be available in TRS format. They are perfect for a beginner starting out with a CP-251, and I can’t help but wonder if they were made available due to the CP-251 giveaway. If Moog would add a color coded option and a TRS option, that would be really cool. Perfect, in fact. Anyone agree with me?
Yeah, I actually tried to get more poll options, but the system wouldn’t allow it. Other options would have been Color Coded According to TRS or TS, and Color Coded According to Length and TS or TRS.
It wouldn’t bother me if Moog didn’t offer cables unless they offered a pack deal.
4 6 inch cables
3 1 foot cables
2 5 foot cables
1 10 foot cable
1 trs cable (that the loop could be seperated by the length of the cable. for rack mounted effects with the insert in the front and the output in the rear)
Cables otherwise are really expensive to put a pack like this together.
Eric
is it just me or does is seem REALLY weird that Moog is selling TS patch cables when basically all their units need TRS to really be used appropriately? Sure, you can get away w/ TS for some applications, but really I don’t get it, not having the negative end of the modulation signal is no good. I realize it’s just a nice little accessory option they offer and all, but really these should be TRS if they are going to offer them.
TRS cables are much more expensive to stock. It would be REALLY nice if they offered both, though. Right now, Hosa has the upper hand, offering 8 three foot color-coded TRS cables for a little more than 40 bucks. Their five foot TRS cables are $7.00 and change for one.
Of course, not everyone has this option, but there’s an electronics store near me that has a great deal on three conductor cable (eight feet for fifty cents, only in eight foot lengths) and plugs, both TS and TRS for 99 cents each! I went in there and bought enough plugs and cable to make 32 patch cords of whatever lengths I need for less than a hundred bucks! It would have been even cheaper to go through Mouser, but whatever.
agreed it could be a price to stock thing, but do they really sell that much? also i think it’d probably be better to stock a small amount of trs than more ts which limit the capability of the foogers etc.
CTRLSHIFT, thanks for the tip! Even though the link you posted isn’t html, and is therefore, not a good link. I will check E-Bay regularly for these! After I use up the stuff I have, that is.
What I don’t like about the right angle cables is that they start blocking other cables from being used. It’s quite evident on a device such as the CP251 or VX351. The straight vertical plugs take up less room.
Hi, I’m new to the forums and have a question about this subject. Using regular TRS cables is the way to go? Do you use them regularly (just plug it in and go) or do they need to be modified when being used or put in half way? What you’re saying is use say HOSA TRS patch cables for the 251/351/MFs and it will give more capability than regular TS cables somehow? Sorry, I need the TRS for dummies explanation please.
This maybe slightly off topic but I’m also a new to the patch cable world and was wondering if there is any downside to only using TRS cables when patching the cp251 and foogers etc. From what i could gather in the manual and around here, there are patch points that require them to be fully functional but I am unsure if there is any reason not to use them for all of my patching if it is what i have around?
I don’t think theres any downside to using TRS cables, but there IS a downside to NOT using them.
If you have more than one CV going into an effect, say using a voltage to control the MIX amount and another voltage to control a different amount, Not using TRS cables will cause the signals to ground out, thus rendering them useless. TRS cables will solve this.
The only downside to using all TRS cables is cost. They are more expensive. Of course, whenever Sam Ash has a cable sale, I buy a whole bunch of them…just in case. I also make my own when I can get the parts for cheap.
high quality gold-plated TRS cables can be found on eBay for pretty low prices, I’ve amassed quite a collection at this point and have only put maybe 80 dollars into a lot of 30 or so of 5’ and 6’ cables.
Past that if you have a patch bay set up and only need 1’ or 6" TRS cables, you can usually get a big pack of em at Guitar Center (provided you can stomach the visit) for a very reasonable price.
It would have been even cheaper to go through Mouser, but whatever. 
