[sdiy] Re: Hertz Wars !

[John L Marshall]

Hear! Hear!


Take care,
John
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Pacific Northwest DIY Synthesizer meeting, July 20, 2002
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Stopp" <gene at ixiacom.com>
To: "synth DIY" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 1:18 PM
Subject: RE: [sdiy] Re: Hertz Wars !


> 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.
>