Learn About Audio Jacks for Circuit Bending

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AMANDA CLAIRE: One thing you might want to do when you make a circuit bending project is be able to plug it to amplifier. So, I've got a 1/4-inch guitar cable plug into this one because I installed a jack into it, and we'll talk about jacks next. But, I can make this as loud as I want now. I don't have it too loud right now, but you can get a lot more amplification if you just run it through a simple audio jack and out through your guitar amplifier or your stereo or your recording studio, your mixing board or whatever it is. So we'll talk about jacks a little bit. There's here just a few different kinds of jacks here. Basically, you've got 1/4-inch jacks, like these are 1/4-inch jacks, that's a diameter of the plug that goes into them. And then, you also have the 1/8-inch jacks which is like kind of a mini jack, like a miniature headphone jacks, that's what these are. And then, there is another size just is like a banana plug jack, which is kind of a little bit--I think it's a little bit smaller; I might be wrong on that but the main sizes are going to be either 1/4-inch or 1/8-inch size jacks. And even among those jacks, there are differences, like if you look here, this is a mono jack. So this is like what's used in your guitar, right? It has basically one contact that it makes with that plug. Actually I'll show you right here. This how it kind of goes in. If we kind of plug it in there, you can see that contact goes in right there. So that's a mono jack. But if you things like stereo headphones, you might want to use a stereo jack and this has got two contacts on it and this isn't the stereo plug. It only has the one kind of contact. But it were stereo plug, it would have one contact here and one contact somewhere else and then so you can kind of get those two signals to that one plug but this is only a mono plug. So, mono jacks, stereo jacks, it kind of doesn't matter which one you use for circuit bending for the most part you're going to be making mono instruments in your circuit bend. I mean, I guess you could rig it up to be stereo--and then mini jacks are basically the same thing; they're just smaller. And then later on the series we'll show how to install a jack so that you can send an audio signal out of your project and into an amplifier or other kind sound board.

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