Hey all.
I have a friend who knows I am handy with a soldering iron. He has a Casio PT-10 29-key keyboard and wants to add a line out, so he can send the output to a DAW/multitrack for recording or use headphones.
Item has a mono 2 1/2" speaker as its output.
I figured I could just take a 3.5mm female jack and wire it to the terminals of the speaker (using a voltage divider if the signal is too big for earphones. That would allow for use of the speaker AND headphones and if I wanted to kill the speaker, I could put a SPST make break to turn the speaker off.
I did the following and the volume is ok, but it has developed a clicking noise. This unit had a feature which would allow you to record up to 100 notes in record mode and then play them back, one at a time, by pressing a button (called 1-play) in any rhythm you chose.
Any idea if adding the jack alone would have caused the click, or did I disturb something. Also, maybe there is an issue with using 250 ohm Seinnheiser phones
I am out of my element here as I normal work on tube amps and rarely vary from the schematics....
Am I screwing something up by adding a speaker load in parallel with the OEM speaker? Should I use a switching jack to kill the main speaker when using headphones
Is there a better way to add a line out to one of these cheapo keyboards that have no out other than an internal speaker?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Tim