Re: OT Audio Adapter Query

[cpr@musetrap.com]

could it be some weird stereo->mono connector thing? I'm just stabbing  
in the dark.. I hope I don't poke your eye out.. :)

-cpr

Quoting looppool@cruzio.com:

>
> I'm having an audio adapter dilemma and wondered if someone can see what
> I'm doing wrong.
>
> I just purchased a really cool Dayglo Orange puffy backpack that has
> a small 3 watt amplifier in it with two stereo speakers built into the
> backpack.
>
> This backpack has a hard wired stereo male mini 1/8" plug that is 
>supposed
> to hook up into an Mp3 or portable player (taking the Mp3's output to be
> amplified).    It works in this capacity.
>
> I also have a strange instrument from the 60's called a 'Sonica'
> that is , essentially, a ribbon controlled touch organ.
>
> It has built in speakers but a Mono speaker out (that disengages the
> built in speakers when plugged in) that takes a mono male mini 1/8" plug
> (sending the signal out to an external amplifier).
>
> I went to Radio Shack and purchased a stereo female mini 1/8" (to plug 
>the
> backpack
> amp into)  that goes to a male 1/8" mini plug that plugs into the audio
> out of the Sonica.
>
> I can't get the Sonica signal to amplify through the backback.
>
> I've tried all components out with their respective appropriate 
>connections
> (Sonica to amplifier,  Mp3 player to Backpack and the plug works
>
> What am I getting wrong.
> I'm stumped.
>
>
>