Key Board stereo headphones to mono input

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That's the trouble with the US importing just bits of their language. In the UK, the post office, who looked after telecoms used jack fields - which as we've seen, were rows of sockets - into which were shoved the plugs - so in the UK, the term "Jack plug" is what everyone else calls 1/4" or 6.25mm phone plugs. The ones the US call RCAs we call phonos. every musician in the UK would call the plug that goes into their guitar a jack plug. Very simple. Few people know the size. It's just a big one, or a small one. Only the technical would use TRS or TS. At best a few could spot a 3 circuit from a 2 circuit - and a 3 circuit is always called a stereo jack - few bother to add 'plug' because they know the plug goes into a socket, so if somebody yells, "Throw me a jack lead" they get one. If they say shove that in the output jack - everyone understands. Why the confusion?
 
rob aylestone said:
That's the trouble with the US importing just bits of their language. In the UK, the post office, who looked after telecoms used jack fields - which as we've seen, were rows of sockets - into which were shoved the plugs - so in the UK, the term "Jack plug" is what everyone else calls 1/4" or 6.25mm phone plugs. The ones the US call RCAs we call phonos. every musician in the UK would call the plug that goes into their guitar a jack plug. Very simple. Few people know the size. It's just a big one, or a small one. Only the technical would use TRS or TS. At best a few could spot a 3 circuit from a 2 circuit - and a 3 circuit is always called a stereo jack - few bother to add 'plug' because they know the plug goes into a socket, so if somebody yells, "Throw me a jack lead" they get one. If they say shove that in the output jack - everyone understands. Why the confusion?
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Won't argue with any of that Rob but we are not dealing here with seasoned musicians or audio technicians and I believe it behoves us to use as precise terms as is possible in order to foster good practice.

"RCA" plugs were called "phono" plugs over here because for many years they would only ever be seen on the "phono" inputs of hi fi pre amps (themselves a fairly recent development! Radio sets had "gram" inputs to connect a turntable and these were invariably "wander" plugs).

BTW, ref GPO jacks, we had to be careful when the standard 1/4" stereo jack and its plug arrived because plugging one into a GPO jack would bugger the contacts on the latter!

Sur le Continent they of course assaulted UK with the DIN regime but they also had a rare jack plug, the 5mm. We have the "bantam" jack but I do not know if it is compatible with the 5mm?

Dave.
 
Farview said:
I forgot to mention, if you need the right channel instead of the left for some reason, plug a guitar cable into it just to the first click. That will give you the right side
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I have a 1/4" Stereo Phone Jack in my hand.
I plug a 1/4" Mono Phone Plug into the first click.
Both the Tip and Ring on the Stereo JACK touch the tip on the Mono Phone Plug .
What comes out?
The left and right both come out in Mono
It's a good way to have a combiner without buying special Hardware
 
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