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Summary: Learn about the final audio jack installation on a toy guitar in this free video series that will help you understand how and when to utilize this unique way of making music.
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Questions & AnswersAMANDA CLAIRE: So, this was a pretty, simple, little installation to do. Again, this isn't really circuit bending but it's something that you might want to do as part of one of your projects. We've installed a 1/4-inch jack. We've got a wire going from each of the two contacts over to the contacts from the speaker because the speaker is closer than the circuit board is, and so with any luck we should be able to plug this in and we should be able to hear it through our amplifier. Let's do that now. Put it in there and I'm going to press some of these buttons here. And it is coming out of the amp. We don't have the amp very loud but, but you can hear it's coming out the amplifier. So that's cool. That means that we can amplify it as loud as we want. We can run it through distortion or other types of effects. Now sometimes, depending on the toy and depending on how you've done it, sometimes you might do this and find for some reason that the sound isn't coming through the speaker. I've found that if that happens, sometimes if you switch which wire you've started where, that can fix it. So if it doesn't work in one orientation try it with the alligator clips and try clipping them the other way, and then you'll have it working but--so there we go, now we've installed the jack and so from here on out, all that is left to do is kind of the big job which is to continue exploring the circuit board and see if there's any more neat contacts that you can connect and make interesting sounds so that you can install switches and pots and other components to complete your project.
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