[mrabassist]

Don't worry about half plugging. It works fine. Any recording situation that you are in where its ok for you to be half plugging will not be advanced in anyway by doing more expensive cabling to plug in all the way. What board are you using though? In my early days I constnatly found myself using the most insane ways to route to my cards and it saved me a lot of hassle and rid me of "well damn i wish i had enough outputs for this" when i sat down, made a diagram of my console, located all the best outputs and routing sequences, bought my patchbay, and got me a permanent set. Rushed setup leads to rushed recordings which leads to rushed results. of course your situation may limit you to that..if so im certainly sorry, thats a hard way to work and somewhere all of us have been before. To answer your question in the beginning though...that ts-trs should do what you want. an engineer would kill me for using the "try it and see" idea, because in science it works but in practice sometimes it just doesnt. Will your results be better? not a bit. i dont know if thats even what you want. your cables will be locked in better...but this could all be avoided by instead of saying hey, plug to the insert saying hey, plus to bus 1