Female EDAC/ELCO to Female EDAC/ELCO coupler

Leopold · Post by **Leopold** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:01 pm

Anyone know where I can find, and if it even exits, a coupler so I can join two ELCOs with male ends together? Been searching online with no luck.

Thanks,
Eddie

The Scum · Post by **The Scum** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:42 pm

Like a DB25 gender changer? Never met one.

When I have that problem, I usually just swap out the face of one connector for the opposite gender.

A number of years ago, I swizzled a few ADAT snakes to work on a Soundcraft 600 by swapping ELCO faces. A pinpuller tool is expensive, but very handy if you're going to play in the ELCO world.

Leopold · Post by **Leopold** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 7:30 pm

Basically all I want to do is couple the male elco from my tape outputs to my maie elco for my DAW inputs so I can transfer tapes to digital.

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The Scum · Post by **The Scum** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 2:15 pm

Yeah, I've never met a simple piece of hardware that would do that. The mirror-imaging of the pin layout is probably a bit awkward to translate, also.

You could always build one with a couple of female connectors and a bit of cable in between.

I still think swapping out one of the faceplates is an easier solution.

Leopold · Post by **Leopold** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:02 am

The Scum wrote:Yeah, I've never met a simple piece of hardware that would do that. The mirror-imaging of the pin layout is probably a bit awkward to translate, also.

You could always build one with a couple of female connectors and a bit of cable in between.

I still think swapping out one of the faceplates is an easier solution.

Well, this would mean having to replace the the ELCO that goes into my board and since I'm constantly swapping from DAW to analog sessions it's just not worth it. I was thinking of just setting up an external patchbay that has elco inputs and normalling it so that when I need to do transfers I just connect the elcos the output from my deck feeds the ins of my daw.

Thanks

The Scum · Post by **The Scum** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:08 am

Gotcha.

It sounds like whatever you do, there's going to be some ELCO wiring done.

With the right tools, ELCOs are actually really easy to deal with. I greatly prefer them to Dsub, Teuchel, and many of the other multipin options.

You could always wire up the adapter you need with regular ELCO connectors and some 16 pair cable in between...or maybe even 8-pair, if you only need to have the deck outputs to meet the DAW inputs, and not the other way around.

I might even have a short scrap of 8-pair mogami hanging around if you go that route.

Electro-Voice 664 · Post by **Electro-Voice 664** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 12:14 pm

I recently bought one of these for some DB25 snakes

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DB25-Female-to- ... 3a709296eb.

Seems like they should have an ELCO version somewhere too right?

The Scum · Post by **The Scum** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 12:47 pm

If such a thing exists, I've never seen one.

I figure if either EDAC or ELCO made one, they would list it in their datasheets:
http://www.edac.net/file_library/series ... %20516.pdf
http://www.kyocera-elco.com/prdct/pdf/8016_2.pdf

Leopold · Post by **Leopold** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:49 pm

Electro-Voice 664 wrote:I recently bought one of these for some DB25 snakes

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DB25-Female-to- ... 3a709296eb.

Seems like they should have an ELCO version somewhere too right?

Yeah that would work beautifully. I haven't had any luck finding something like that for elcos.

Thanks again you guys.

Eddie

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