Electronic musician adapter kit won't make your music sound good

If you're a musician of any type, odds are you've found yourself on stage more than once desperately hunting for some variety of esoteric adapter which is supposed to plug into a connector you've never seen before. Well, for those who've mounted Orbital style goggle-lights and gone digging into bottomless bags only to come up empty handed, today is your day. Enter the Electronic Musician's Emergency Adaptor kit -- a little red bag containing all of the connectors, adapters, splitters, and couplers you could ever want or need. With a wide variety of XLR, 1/8", 1/4", and RCA plugs, your excuses for sucking are probably going to get a lot more complicated.

[Via Gear Diary]

[You Rock Radio @ Mar 6th 2008 12:05AM]

Looks like a pile of junk, but a good pile of junk. I need that kind of stuff around, seems like it comes in handy a lot.

[Andrew @ Dec 24th 2007 6:24PM]

How much are these going for? I bet I could rustle up at least 5 of these kits in my junk boxes.

[Joe @ Dec 24th 2007 7:49PM]

The site says the kit goes for $65.

They also compare it to buying this stuff in Radio Shack for almost double the price of this kit - but I'm not sure I entirely believe that.

[Urza9814 @ Dec 25th 2007 1:53AM]

Joe: You ever actually buy cables and adapters at Radioshack? I could believe it costing 3-4x as much easy. They'll try to change $20 for a 1 foot patch cable. Adapters are just as bad. I can spot a few things in that kit that I know would be going for at least $10 each.

[tb @ Dec 25th 2007 3:49PM]

pretty old, I sold that kit 3 years ago when working as an instruments salesman, looks like cheap HOSA adapters and cables, not what i'd call pro (i prefer to build my own survival kit with parts that would actually save my life, not worsen it so I use neutrik plugs and adapters)

[Rob @ Dec 24th 2007 6:56PM]

Ok, almost complete. Where are the MIDI cords/adapters? You need those. A little Toslink, Firewire, and USB cords and adapters would've made this little package a bit more complete.

[Jeremy W @ Dec 25th 2007 12:09AM]

Those are the types of cables you'd be using to connect your own equipment to more of your own equipment, not to someone else's sound system.

[Fernando G. @ Dec 24th 2007 7:03PM]

could be wrong but hasn't this same kit been around for like two years? i thought i read it here

[kyle allen @ Dec 24th 2007 7:14PM]

that is probably the moste usefull ive seen on this site in a long time (ever since the taxidermied beaver case mod)

[computer.dude.28 @ Dec 24th 2007 7:27PM]

Just because they won't make our music sound good doesn't mean we don't need them!

[Brendan @ Dec 24th 2007 7:31PM]

I'm sure I have all the components of the kit lying around, but I could completely justify having a "just-in-case" kit around.

[yoyorks @ Dec 24th 2007 7:49PM]

cost 65 bucks

[Miguel @ Dec 24th 2007 7:50PM]

Nice. Now where's a digital audio out-to-speaker wire adapter? For professional musicians, the RCA adapters are sweet, but I have this unit that has an audio out resembling an RCA port for a subwoofer, but every subwoofer I'm running into is using standard speaker wires split red/black, the two-piece coppers. How do I solve that problem?

Seems a decent idea, but it's not complete. Not at all.

[Jeremy W @ Dec 25th 2007 12:11AM]

Digital audio out to speaker wire adapter? You must be describing it wrong, because that doesn't make any sense. It is not possible to take a S/PDIF output and use some kind of adapter to convert it to something capable of driving a subwoofer. That requires a decoder and an amp at the very least.

[andrew wilson @ Dec 25th 2007 2:55AM]

splice the rca cable open, there are your two speaker wires right there.

[Miguel @ Dec 25th 2007 3:30AM]

@andrew wilson

Is that seriously all that's inside an RCA cable? I'm a technical sound mixer, but I've never gone into the finer details...just know patching, what cord serves what purpose, amps and the like. Never cracked anything open.

If that's the case, I can plug one end into my subwoofer out port, cut off the other end, unwind the two wires within and plug those into the subwoofer's receivers. That would be excellent.

[Dave @ Dec 24th 2007 10:52PM]

looks handy but over priced.

[tb @ Dec 25th 2007 3:50PM]

the price is right for what you get (that is pay less get lesser quality like that kit)

[Magallanes @ Dec 26th 2007 7:03AM]

65 for a golden-less connector?.