MOTM

The hosa stuff is *ok,* but it's not great.  They cetainly have what 
we're looking for, but the cable is not very thick, and the jacks and 
plugs are mediocre.  I'm fairly certain that Switchcraft makes inline 
jacks.  We could probably make a batch of these cables fairly 
easily.  If you guys are OK with "Horizon" cables, I know they do 
custom orders all the time, we could make a batch of 2 fem - 1 male, 
6" (or even less) cables.

The shortcoming here is that my recollection of the ends is that 
they're pretty large, for the heavier gague stuff, but I do recall 
one that's not much larger than the regular switchcraft plugs.

(I work for a Horizon dealer, so if you folks want, I can find out 
what retail on those cables would be, but don't feel that I should 
sell them to you.  I feel it's a conflict of interests to bring my 
personal life to work.)

--- In motm@y..., "J. Larry Hendry" <jlarryh@i...> wrote:
> You know, as crazy as this sounds.... It does lend itself to another
> interesting question for something almost like you are discussing.  
What
> about when you have a voltage you want to take only 2 different 
places?  How
> many times do we use a 4-square jack mult for 1IN - 2OUT?  Instead 
of
> stringing a cable to the mult and then back from the mult to the two
> separate destinations, how about one of these two ideas:
> 
> 1. Have a handful of portable mults.  These would be a VERY 
short "Y" cable
> with one male and 2 females (flexible, not stiff).  You plug it to 
the
> source, plug the two cables tight into it and take them directly 
where they
> go.  You reduce cable clutter by one cable and don't string out of 
your way
> to get to a mult.  You would not use these for mults with many 
cables.  But
> how many times are we just going 2 places.  Even 3 would work.  
Think of
> them as highly portable 3 jack mults.
> --or--
> 2 - have a cable that has an the "Y" at one end, so you can always 
piggy
> back on a second cable.
> --or--
> 3.  Keep quite a few cables in your system, that have one 1/4 plug 
at one
> end with 2 cables coming out the same length to separate 1/4" plugs.
> anytime you knew you were going to 2 separate locations, just use 
pick up a
> "dual" cable.
> 
> The issue is reliable 1/4 female jacks that go onto cable if you do 
1 or 2.
> I have never found really good ones.
> 
> Stooge Larry
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: sucrosemusic <sucrosemusic@y...>
> To: <motm@y...>
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:20 PM
> Subject: [motm] Stackable 1/4" Plugs?
> 
> 
> The idea just came upon me.  I remember a discussion about bananna
> plugs vs. 1/4", and i don't remember if the concept of stackable 
1/4"
> plugs came in.  Granted, they'd stick out like mad, but I'm certain
> it's feasable.  Does anybody make these?  They'd have to be a bit
> longer than the 1/4" plug itself on the outside, but you could make
> the cable come out of the side at a diag. fairly easily without
> mucking up your modular too much.
> 
> Does anybody know where we could find these?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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