a modest proposal...

[David Halliday (Volt Computer)]

True - and there is something wonderfully visceral about grabbing a
handful of patch cords and pulling everything out of the synth - many
times I have been trying to "get that sound" only to yank the whole rats
nest out and start over again...

But - the plugs are sooo cheap that if one fails, you can take some
scissors, nip it off and crimp a new one on in a minute and be out $0.20
or so.

If you kept the impedance low enough, you could do some longish runs in
the studio without any shielding problems - maybe use these as a
secondary standard for interconnection between workstations, synths and
amps and mixers - feed them through a voltage follower and 10K Ohm
resistor directly into the current summing input of an inverting op-amp
and you will keep the impedance almost zero - make it current fed rather
than voltage fed.

Hal Chamberlain suggested this idea for bussing modules together in
MAoMP.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Troy Sheets [SMTP:tsheets at saturn5.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, September 16, 1997 1:03 PM
> To:	David Halliday (Volt Computer)
> Cc:	synth-diy at horus.sara.nl
> Subject:	Re: a modest proposal...
> 
> 
> plugs and jacks are designed to have a particular number of
> insertions/removals
> in their lifetimes.  Generally, telephone jacks are designed with a 
> very low number of insertions/removals becuase you generally are not
> patching
> phone stuff that much (plug it in, leave it in).
> 
> The first thing that would go, I imagine, is that little plastic tab
> on
> the plug that snaps down to lock it in the jack.
> 
> -troy
> 
> 
> > 
> > With the discussion about favorite patching technologies ( 1/4, 1/8,
> > banana, etc... )
> > 
> > It just occurred to me that telephone jacks might be viable. 
> > 
> > They are cheap ( the plugs are about $0.20 and the jacks are about
> $0.75
> > to $1.20 )
> > The crimping tool makes it really easy to make cords of any length
> > With the multiple conductors, balanced pairs are easy to do
> > They support up to 8 lines
> > Color coded jacks and plugs are available
> > 
> 
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