[sdiy] Substitute for pin matrixes?

[cheater cheater]

Have you got a photo of those 'japanese' and 'rounded' minijack plugs?

A google search for japanese minijack plugs came up with nothing.

D.

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 18:53, karl dalen <dalenkarl at yahoo.se> wrote:
> Mini jack are not crap, the problem are that people mix rounded
> plugs and Japanese jacks, then the jack go ape, if one takes
> a japanese plug an insert it into a rounded jack nothing goes
> ape it just becomes slightly firmer in the seating.
>
> The difference are the japanese has figured out how
> to make a universal plug that dont fuck up the jacks.
>
> The problem doepfer had back in the 90'es was just this he mixed
> Japanese plugs with Cliff's wrongly engineered jacks.Cliff even
> have a special plug that they want peole to buy for these jacks
> if you insert on of their plugs into any other jack it will break!
>
> So the advice are, dont buy anything else then the Japanese
> standard and you will be fine.
>
> KD
>
> --- Den sön 2010-01-24 skrev cheater cheater <cheater00 at gmail.com>:
>
>> Från: cheater cheater <cheater00 at gmail.com>
>> Ämne: Re: [sdiy] Substitute for pin matrixes?
>> Till: "Magnus Danielson" <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org>
>> Kopia: "karl dalen" <dalenkarl at yahoo.se>, synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>> Datum: söndag 24 januari 2010 16.00
>> 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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