#audio jacks

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But one bit that makes me envious of going the Buchla route is that the banana jacks they use were color coded as to the kinds of signals they were. A gate or clock output would be red, where a gate input would be orange; CV inputs would be black and inputs would be blue. There were other colors to extend this schema somewhat, but the point was that you'd always know which jacks were inputs, which were outputs, and which direction the signal was flowing. Most Eurorack modules try to at least be clear about which jacks are inputs and which are outputs by panel markings, but it's not quite the same as bright color markings.

There do exist colored nuts for the 3.5mm jacks that Eurorack modules use; the Sigma function generator modules I built don't incorporate non-textual indicators of signal direction, so I followed the designer's practice of using black jack nuts on the input jacks and red ones on the outputs. But these nuts are more expensive than standard jack nuts, and the desirable colors often sell out at the few dealers that stock them.

Which is why when I found an import vendor of black and gold jack nuts, I ordered a bunch of each, hopeful that they'd make the signal directions clearer on other modules.

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