Design concept for Little Labs, prepared by The Recording Club. Not affiliated with Little Labs.
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Instrument cable extender

STD

Runs a guitar down a mic cable without losing the top.

The STD allows you to use long microphone cables or microphone tie lines to extend your guitar or any instrument cable without losing tone and increased noise associated with long instrument cable runs. It also has two outputs for splitting between two amps or between an amp and a direct injection box, with a selectable ground lift on one output to reduce ground loop problems. The STD is a perfect solution for the live player who is tired of the tone-sucking wireless rigs but still needs to be able to walk more than ten feet from his amp; the studio player who needs his amplifier in isolation but himself close to his band mates; the recording engineer using control room rack mounted direct injection boxes with a player located in the studio or isolation booth.

STD, with cable
what it does
  • Extends instrument cables using mic cables and/or tie lines
  • Single transistor buffer technology
  • Reduces cable noise susceptibility while preserving tone
  • Sonics of a 10ft. “Boutique guitar cable” in a 80ft. run
  • Dual outputs for feeding two amps or an amp and a Direct box
format
No rack space. It is a cable and a box.
built
Los Angeles, by Little Labs
documentation
2 PDFs on this page
how it patches in

Where it sits in the chain

Little Labs draws these by hand. They are kept on a white ground here because that is how they read.

Application diagram for the STD
Application diagram, published by Little Labs
Application diagram for the STD
Application diagram, published by Little Labs
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