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How weird!!

Throughout the 90's, I used to hang around a radio station (WPKN 89.5 FM) a
lot. I helped redesign and rebuild the studio and production rooms (such as
they are). Did a lot of soldering....

A lot of the equipment that this low-budget station made use of was old
telephone equipment. There were stackable 1/4" plugs all over the place... I
never thought of them as rare until the last few days of this dicussion. I
don't mean Radio Shaft "Y-adapters" or anything, but actual stackable plugs
designed for just what we're talking about.

A lot of the telephonic equipment that used phone plugs seemed to use them
in ganged pairs... you know, so that you would jack a cable into a patchbay
and it actually inserted mono phone plugs into two adjacent jacks in the
patchbay automatically. We used this for stereo pairs, but for all I know
the origial intent was for balanced lines or something.

I figured I'd throw this info out there becuse maybe, instead of just
looking at audio catalogs, those interested might try looking for some
esoteric phone equipment sources to find something interesting.

A lot of the fun stuff in electronic music has strange origis in telephony.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Loffink

We're all just reinventing the wheel.  Check out the following link at
the Moog Archives for a really creative solution:

http://www.moogarchives.com/ go to oddities, then to port-a-pots to see
the move-a-mults.

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