I hate that shit. With my crappy iron it takes forever to put the solder in place and make sure the wires don’t touch each other. I keep putting off repairing the cables on two sets of headphones just because I don’t wanna do the soldering, and that’s while I need one of them for decent sound and no lag with the DAW. Worse even, I will probably soon need to make another adapter from a 4-pin plug to two jacks, and that’s quite a little cramped nest.
Audio cables. I’m a musician and audio engineer. Soldering two or three conductor wire to 1/4” phono jacks.
90% of it is making sure you have heavy enough gauge wires, a proper solder join, and (if you are feeling itchy) cable shielding.
You could buy STP 2-wire, 4-wire, or 8-wire and have plenty for darn near any project.
What cables are you using? I can highly recommend Sommer cables, especially Spirit XXL for guitar/bass.
Mogami cables and Square Plug jacks. Both straight and right angles.
I hate that shit. With my crappy iron it takes forever to put the solder in place and make sure the wires don’t touch each other. I keep putting off repairing the cables on two sets of headphones just because I don’t wanna do the soldering, and that’s while I need one of them for decent sound and no lag with the DAW. Worse even, I will probably soon need to make another adapter from a 4-pin plug to two jacks, and that’s quite a little cramped nest.
The initial investment of a high quality iron goes a long way. And is worth it.