I'm fairly new to this--sorry for posting in the wrong place.
No worries, it's not always clear where posts should go. Sorry we didn't have an answer for you. I thought moving the thread here might catch more cable-specific eyes, but...doesn't seem so, yet. Did you get an answer on GS?
I did not post yet on GS--will do that. My questioned morphed some and got a little more complicated.
One personal response I got to the question was:
As for the cables you're looking for, they don't really exist. What you need is TRS to TRS and half click in the inserts. The only problem with this method is that if they get fully plugged in (by accident, if someone bumps them or something) they will kill the signal to the FOH for that channel.
You need to send the tip (hot) to the ring to get signal out in parallel, but if the tip makes any kind of contact with the tip connection inside the jack (even if unconnected at the cable end) it will short it out.
So really what you'd want for doing this is a plug without a tip (just a ring), and I doubt that exists.
Insert patching is usually a BIG no-no for this very reason. It's too dangerous in terms of potential impact to the show.
MY RESPONSE:
I'm not so sure you are correct on the cabling to grab the insert feeds for this particular board. I read the manual and it shows this exact cable configuration for use when you want a send but have no return. I understand what you are explaining--read about the one click method before--that is obviously risky. Quote from the PSX2000 manual:
"If you want to use this socket as a DIRECT OUT (Pre EQ), the stereo phone plug's tip and ring have to be short circuited, so that the audio signal is not interrupted. If you are using a monorual phone plug instead, you will get a DIRECT OUT with breaker function--the signal flow within the channel is interrupted."
It then shows a wiring diagram of the cable visually showing the configuration.
I'm now more than less confused.......