Pro-audio and Industrial wiring
Updated: 22 February 2012: More SynthAxe details added plus test and wiring jigs.
Since this website was created in October 2009, I have had a number of requests to do wiring so, here are some examples of my work. Also, refer to my client list menu for past achievements!
1. Recording studio wiring installations including patchbays, racks and panels.
2. Pro-Audio custom projects, wiring and test jigs, prototypes and racking.
3. SynthAxe guitar cable loom replacements (Amended Feb 2012)
4. Industrial custom projects, wiring and test jigs, prototypes and small production runs.
5. Documentation (details soon).
Below: SSL 96 way console extension patchbay wired with Brandrex twin screened cable and held together with lacing cord (in the style of Neve). I have all these bits in stock (patchbays, cable and sleeves).
Below: 96 way DL (DL2-96P) wired with 32 pair cable to standard SSL pinout within a modified EDAC 90 way backshell (cable clamp omitted for clarity). The black sheathing is not the cheap Rigaine version but a superior higher melting temperature type. The sleeves are Hellerman black H20 x 20 mm for the twin screens and green TH10 (thin wall) versions for the draiin wires.
Below: Some pictures of a test jig showing 9 to 50 way connectors including Amphenol 24, 36 and 50 way connectors. I also designed and machined the panel. The rear view shows the coloured ribbon cable used wired to RS stripboard which connects to the main test jig switches (picture to follow).
Below: Pictures of the audio multiway connectors for the same test jig (not quite finished) showing 20 to 120 way Edac type connectors wired with twisted triplet 7/0.2 wires (red, black and green) to RS stripboard. Like the SSL patchbay shown before, lacing cord has been used (influenced by Neve looming ideas).
Below are the component and wiring views of a prototype centre section PCB for the original Focusrite Forte Console. This would have been for console number 3 if the company had survived!!!!
3 SynthAxe guitar cable loom replacements (NEW Nov 2011): Amended Feb 2012.
Late in 2011 I completed some replacement cable looms for a guitarist friend of mine, Alec Stansfield who, apart from his other musical activities, regularly shares his views on the SynthAxe forum website. He sent me his cables and I documented them, bought various new parts and replaced the old cables which were literally falling apart (see picture below). Since then, I have had 3 more enquiries which I am currently investigating.
I am preparing some prices but, so far, they range from GB £90 for a refurbished cable using your existing connectors (with some replacement Lemo parts and new cable) up to £495 for a complete set of 3 leads made with all new Lemos and cables. The pricing depends on how many cables you require, at what lengths, whether you wish to have your existing ones reused (this means sending them to me) or, if they are all made from new parts.
Here are some example pictures of the new cables (more to follow).
Below left: Old Controller Lemo wiring. Right: Rewired version with new Lemo 
Below left: Do your SynthAxe cables look like this?
Below right: 4 different types of Lemo. Notice that the grey lead has 2 different connectors. The others are the same at both ends.
4 Industrial wiring prototypes and small production runs.
I've undertaken numerous one off and limited small production runs for various companies. These include laser labeling machines and F1 and Bentley cars. More pictures to follow soon but here is one example for now.
Below:A staggered wire join in a 12 way overall screened cable (not finished). The objective was to keep the join area as low profile as possible without creating a bulge in the cable which was being used for firework displays. I use clear heatshrink for terminations so the joints can be seen!
5 Documentation (details soon but look at the documentation menu for now).