[sdiy] Should GaTech go bananas?

[jfm3]

In your EE labs, there are a ton of banana connectors?  There won't be
after a pile of ramen eating undergrads build modular synths with Banana
jacks :)

1/4" phone jacks are the One True Right and Only interconnect for audio!
Take your heretical and blasphemous musings elsewhere, sir!

More seriously: you'll have trouble converting some MOTM modules to
banana jacks, since they use switching to operate differently when a
plug is inserted.

The students can make their own cables.  That's a different kind of
engineering problem than what you're teaching, I suspect, but spending a
few days building your own patch cables builds character.  After all,
what good is the most buttery and temperature stable oscillator in the
world if its interconnect to the VCF flakes out in a stiff breeze?

Have fun :)

On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 11:36 -0800, James Patchell wrote:
> Turns out with the signal levels you see with synths...unshielded bananas 
> work just fine.  I use both.  I prefer 1/4 for some things...bananas for 
> others.
> 
>  From a building point of view...bananas are more labor intensive that 1/4 
> inch.  From a using point of view...bananas offer a bit more 
> flexibility.  There are a number of trade offs between the two of them.
> 
> At 11:09 AM 12/27/2005 -0800, MTG wrote:
> >Dumb question, ... wouldn't you be replacing SHIELDED 1/4" cabling
> >with UNSHIELDED banana plugs?
> >
> >In unrelated matters, I'm not so into the analog end of things (shudder),
> >is there a similar DIY list for digital types?
> >
> 
>          There are quite a few of us interested in digital.  I am working 
> on a FPGA based synth, when I have time.  One list member used an AVR to 
> make a digital...etc....there are actually quite a few of us 
> here...course...I also do analog as well (my first love...I sure hope 
> analog doesn't find out I am cheating on her with digital :-)....
> 
> 
> >GB
> >
> 
>          -Jim
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