[sdiy] Substitute for pin matrixes?

[cheater cheater]

What are you talking about? My silver cape and red spandex suit DOES
make me the coolest in the gig!

Minijack plugs are crap because the edge of the metal connecting to
the standoff plastic ring is not rounded. If you can find a rounded
one, sort of like 'long frame' plugs:
http://switchcraft.com/products/jack-123.html
then you're better off than usual. But neither Switchcraft nor Neutrik
makes such, with good reason - minijacks are not meant for lots of
cycles. So the question is why not use normal long frame jacks? The
answer is going to be "space" or "cost" or "space and cost". If
someone's bothered about the space, get a he can pin matrix, if he's
bothered about the cost then he isn't going to get good repeatability
anyways, and if he's bothered about space AND cost then he has a
problem, but he can always get a job and earn enough to buy a proper
pinhole matrix. This is in fact the most cost-effective solution! :P


D.

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:27, Magnus Danielson
<magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:
> karl dalen wrote:
>>
>> Fuse holders in an array? What do you think of that!! :-)
>>
>> Or automatic fuses, blast 10A, fuse goes,
>> current disappears, fuses resets.
>>  Blowable matrix a new musical concept!
>
> If you make the VCO and Generator synonymous, let the VCA be a transductor
> etc. etc. you can have great fun with power, but balanced signals would
> naturally be three-phase. Don't forget the spark-gaps and knife-edge
> switches! :) Maybe at last the synth player would be coolest in the gig...
> prof nutty running his lab of mad science! :D
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
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