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Permalink Reply by Clark Rowden on July 9, 2017 at 11:29am

If the 1/8" inch jack has 3 connectors, it's either a stereo jack or it's a switching jack - hard to tell without seeing it.

What you want is a "mono" 1/8" jack. You can make a stereo jack work, just wire the ground to the "sleeve" terminal and the hot to the "tip" terminal and leave the "ring" terminal unconnected.

http://www.cigarboxguitar.com/knowledge-base/wiring-stereo-and-mono...

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Permalink Reply by Kirby Amick on July 9, 2017 at 4:47pm

thank you..  that's what I needed to know.. there are different types.. even the ones on amazon that look like a switchcraft have 3   not sure what to ground

https://www.amazon.com/CESS-Inche-Female-Socket-Switch/dp/B00ZSX761...

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Permalink Reply by JL on July 10, 2017 at 2:33am

Switchable jacks like this let you cut out the main speaker when you plug in a headphone by pushing back the tip connector and breaking the connection between the tip and switch lugs.

if you are trying to "use what's on hand" and don't need the switching function, just solder to the tip and sleeve lugs.

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Permalink Reply by Kirby Amick on July 10, 2017 at 6:37am

awesome!!   thank you..

Kirby

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Permalink Reply by Kirby Amick on July 10, 2017 at 1:18pm

ps.  which one is positive.. ?

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Permalink Reply by JL on July 11, 2017 at 6:49am

we commonly use TIP for positive and SLEEVE for ground mostly for consistency, a piezo or mag pickup wired directly to a jack without tone/volume/selector/psycho/etc will work connected either way.

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