You don’t always have the luxury of time though. I work in entertainment, and I’ve definitely scrapped adapters together in a pinch. When you have a show starting in 15 minutes and a musician rolls up with some bespoke gear with weird connections, your only real choice is to bodge something together and make it work.
Nothing quite like seeing five adapters chained together, to go from stereo RCA to TRS 1/8” to TRS 1/4” to dual TS 1/4”, to XLR… All because you didn’t have a direct box that went straight from RCA to XLR, because another musician walked off with it after their show wrapped up at 2AM last night.
I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I think this is more for that time you’re at a gig and realise you’re missing the adapter.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That does make sense, although it would be weird to go to a gig and not have a 1/4" to RCA adapter but happen to have large-gauge copper wire.
Steve@startrek.website 9 months ago
They just leave that shit in the walls in almost every building
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Proprietors generally don’t care for big holes in their drywall.
I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s true…
Might be an electrician.
Krzd@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Much easier to procure at a random hardware store than the adapter though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Exactly what I just said before I saw your comment. Who carries thick copper wire with them regularly?
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 9 months ago
… And you just happen to have a piece of like 12 or 14 AWG copper wire on hand?
clockwork_octopus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
… Do you not?
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Nah, I only carry around 6 gauge wire in my pocket.
petey@aussie.zone 9 months ago
I thought it was TIG filler wire, which is copper plated
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Which would make it even more odd for a musician to have lol
registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 9 months ago
Overnight? Do you deliver overminute?