[sdiy] Banana vs. 1/4" question

[patchell]

    Well, one problem I see with Banana's (and I hope that this can be
corrected), is that there are no good PC board mount bananas, where as you can
get good 1/4 inch phone jacks....of course, this only matters if you are trying
to cut down on the amount of wiring as I am...if anybody thinks they know of a
nice PC board mount banana, please point me to it.

Michael Schulze wrote:

> A while back we had a thread about the ideal modular synth connector.  I'v
> just finished my first module - a quad vco with 36 1/4" jacks.  As I gaze
> longingly at the Milton sequencer I remember how cool it was on the big
> Buchla system in college to be able to split control voltages by just
> sticking a banana into another banana already plugged it.  Very conducive to
> improvisation and patching on the fly.
>
> As I remember the thread the only real disadvantage to bananas was that they
> could not be normalled and you needed to adapt signals from the outside
> world.  I don't care about these points - were there any other disadvantages
> I am forgetting?
>
> I am actually considering redoing all 36 of these jacks to end up with an
> all-banana modular.

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