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Altoids Patchbay Tester

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So what the heck is this? I’m so glad you asked. It’s like the simplest device in the world.

Something I made a long time ago for tracing signals in a patch bay. It’s literally just a speaker mounted into an altorides box. I don’t know why I decided to put a second input.

It’s not uncommon to be trying to trace a signal. And if you’re not hearing what you’re expecting to hear with a quarter inch patch bay, you could just stick a set of headphones in here. Not enough signal to drive them very hard, but, you’d be able to hear something with a smaller TT type bay.

You can’t do that. I don’t know if you can hear that. But I can confirm the signal flow from point to point and figure out where my patch is broken when something doesn’t sound right.

Suppose I could stick a battery in here and make it louder, but I kind of like it’s a passive device and I wired this up so I could use a Bantam patch or a 3.5 millimeter or whatever.

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