[sdiy] Re: Hertz Wars !

[Gene Stopp]

Very nice thinking but... (funny how there's a critic in every crowd!) once
long ago when I was single and some friends were over and we'd all had a few
too many I left one friend alone in the music room messing around with my
big homebuilt for a while. I was in another part of the house and I heard
these god-awful monsterous sonic emanations coming from the music room and I
ran in and stood there and yelled "what the hell are you doing?" and looked
at the patch on the modular. He had inputs going to inputs and outputs going
to outputs and not a single patchcord left on the floor. I tried to follow
the patchcords to see what was going on and I could not because it was
threatening to lock up my brain... the point is that he had no concept of
which signal route did what, or which knob setting did what, and the result
was some pretty amazing noises. I wish I could reproduce it, or even think
of a way to approach the method that he used. I guess the point is that he
had no method. Could it have happened if outputs were on one kind of jack
and inputs were on another? I do not know. Now it is my turn to have my zen
moment:

to reach the highest art
one should not think
the distinction between right and wrong signal paths
will only keep you to what is already heard


- Gene

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom May [mailto:tom at tommay.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 11:44 AM
To: synth DIY
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Re: Hertz Wars !


It's so painfully obvious.  Banana for output, 1/4" for input.  Any
output routes to any input, outputs are stackable, signals are
shielded with ground connected at one end, it's obvious what's output
and what's input, outputs can't be mistakenly connected to outputs nor
inputs to inputs, and you can never plug in your cord so the signal
flows through it in the wrong direction :-).  But if you want balanced
outputs you're SOL.

Tom.