[sdiy] Substitute for pin matrixes?

[Bruce Duncan]

Really?  Isn't the whole Euro-rack and other mini - 1/8" jack modular 
formats based on the use of these jacks?
Somebody must be making a decent jack by now.
Actually if you mean stereo versions suck then maybe so but you could 
do the same with mono jacks and use ground and tip instead of ring and tip.

Bruce



At 02:26 AM 1/24/2010, you wrote:
>A mini jack matrix would work - but not for long,
>unless one could find a source of high quality
>minijacks. The cheap ones (that is to say, all I have seen) aren't 
>guaranteeed for very many cycles.
>
>paul perry Melbourne Australia
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Duncan"
>>I don't know if this has been mentioned but how about a field of 
>>stereo mini jacks
>>with tip connected to input row and ring connected to output column?
>>Then use stereo mini plug with tip and ring jumpered inside the 
>>plug body (no wire) to connect the points.
>
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