[sdiy] UK - B&Q Tape adapters

[Ove Ridé]

On 29 March 2012 21:50, Mark Codling <mark.fireeye at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi.
> Not sure if this of interest to anyone.
> But B&Q in the UK (Bournemouth anyway) are selling those tape adapters .
> (the ones you stick in your car cassette unit to plug your MP3 player in)
> for £2 or 3 for £4.
> OK so big deal.
> But I was thinking.
> Buy a few and rip apart one of the many old cassette decks I have rip out
> the head from the tape adapters and build a cassette echo unit all the
> outputs could be simply plugged into a mixer to start with build up a simple
> mix unit and feed back into the record head .etc....probably do the whole
> thing for £25..
>
> Got me excited anyway something to do bank holiday weekend.

Not sure I see the point. There's no delay element. Unless I'm missing
something crucial, it seems like this would be equivalent to simply
plugging a send channel of the mixer right back to a mixing input. (Or
other similar feedback loop.) You'd get an oscillation, but no real
echo.

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/Ove

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