Ok, so the TP wire is going to the tip contact and the SL wire
is going to the shaft or ground contact.
One output from each oscillator is plugged directly into the left
and middle jacks of the RRing.
The jack on the right is plugged directly to an amp.
There's still no sound.
Well if i turn the amp all the way up I can hear the two
original tones very faintly.
The VCO output is very high though.
I barely need the volume up at all on the amp to get
good levels normally.
I must be missing something very basic here.
Is there anything else involved?
thanks,
-jay
is going to the shaft or ground contact.
One output from each oscillator is plugged directly into the left
and middle jacks of the RRing.
The jack on the right is plugged directly to an amp.
There's still no sound.
Well if i turn the amp all the way up I can hear the two
original tones very faintly.
The VCO output is very high though.
I barely need the volume up at all on the amp to get
good levels normally.
I must be missing something very basic here.
Is there anything else involved?
thanks,
-jay
--- In cgs_synth@yahoogroups.com, sasami@... wrote:
>
>
> >I have 3 switchcraft type jacks(different that the box ones in ken's
> >diagram) that have 3 places to connect wires.
> >The first connects to the shaft where the plug enters so i figured
> >that is the ground or the equivalent of SL?
> >The other two connect to parts that are touching but when a plug
> >enters the one piece(A) is forced away from the other.
> >I am guessing that (A) is the equivalent of TP?
>
> The one that is forced away should be TP (the TIP). The important
thing is
> it is the contact that stays touching the tip of the plug. The
output must
> be one of the outer pairs of connections.
>
> >Also, my vco sounds weird now without the ring modulator attached.
> >I figured since this was a passive device, no harm would come from
> >trying different wiring out. Was this wrong to do?
>
> If you shorted out the VCO douring your experiments it would not be
good.
> Also while the ring mod is a passive device, it is also a heavy load -
> notably more so than most synth modules. If a synth module is designed
> propperly, it will not have any permanent affect, but if a synth
module is
> poorly designed it is vaguely possible damage could occur, though
I've not
> heard of it happening with the real ring before.
>
> Ken
>
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