Analogue systems

How many jacks did you have on your homemade move-a-mults?  Using the 
Y adapters like I do only involves plugs 2 per jack, and I haven't 
had any trouble yet.  Nontheless, I'm interested to know if you had 
more than 2 jacks.  If yours had only 2, I might want to be very 
careful.  
This shouldn't be a problem with Peter's approach, since the mults 
presumably put no extra strain on the jacks. 


--- In analogue_systems@yahoogroups.com, Brandon Daniel <bdu@f...> 
wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Peter Grenader wrote:
> 
> > They're  mounted in little boxes basically.  The boxes are 
covered with a
> > soft material, so when they lay on the faceplates, it doesnt do 
any damage.
> > I just lay them where I need them and use them, and put them back 
on my
> > bookshelf when I'm not.
> 
> I don't really recommend this approach. I had homemade "move-a-
mults" on
> my system for about two weeks before I decided this was a really 
bad idea.
> The little PC mount 1/8" jacks that my Asys/Doepfer uses were 
getting
> their contacts bent by the extra weight strain from the wire, it 
got to
> the point where I couldn't get signal from my output VCA! I had to 
pop the
> module out and bend the contact back into place, and even then it 
wasn't
> as snappy an insertion as it used to be. At that point I stopped 
using the
> "move-a-mult"s in order to preserve the system's usability.
> 
> Your mileage may vary.
> 
> -Brandon
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