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Why do reverb tanks use RCA jacks? Only thing I could figure is because these connectors are much shorter, and a regular TS jack would stick out all silly or sideways .Shielded TS would function all he same as shielded RCA...?
 
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tegendemuur said:
Why do reverb tanks use RCA jacks? Only thing I could figure is because these connectors are much shorter, and a regular TS jack would stick out all silly or sideways Shielded TS would function all he same as shielded RCA...?
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Without doing any research, I saw Matt Berry talking on That Pedal Show about how there are consumer reverb units that were intended for people to add their own reverb to music. So I'm taking a wild guess that it might be because they come originally from consumer audio where RCA cables were the standard, and it's mostly convention?

My understanding is also that the advantage of TRS is that the jacks can take a lot of unplugging and plugging easily, while for something like reverb tanks you don't need to unplug them that often.
 
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