Krackle Killers

[Hugh Robjohns]

Just wanted to give a shout-out for Krackle-Killers, as reviewed here:

https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/krackle-killers

One of those little-known products which can be a real boon when it comes to less-than perfect jack sockets, and which deserves recommendation.

I had some unwelcome crackles from a couple of sockets in a used DI rack box found on ebay. A couple of goes with a krackle killer and some deoxit has cured the problems completely.

Available directly from the inventor in Australia:

https://kracklekillers.com/shop

Definitely worth keeping a bag or two in your musicians toolkit, alongside the can of deoxit, pliers, screwdrivers, and spare strings!

I have no affiliation with the product other than as an appreciative user.

[Martin Walker]

Thanks for the reminder Hugh - VERY useful, and obviously very effective!

While discussing 'socket maintenance' I suspect your post is also a suitable place to remind everyone about JackCaps, which I know you and I routinely use to prevent dust getting into unoccupied sockets, not only 6.35mm and 3.5mm jacks, but also XLRs and MIDI.

At 35p to 70p each in the UK, they are also an absolute bargain!



You can buy them from www.jackcap.co.uk

[Hugh Robjohns]

Good call. Yes, I'm a big fan of them too.

[Wonks]

If you put them on your Rice Krispies, do you only then get 'snap' and 'pop'?

[Arpangel]

Thanks for the reminder Hugh - VERY useful, and obviously very effective!

While discussing 'socket maintenance' I suspect your post is also a suitable place to remind everyone about JackCaps, which I know you and I routinely use to prevent dust getting into unoccupied sockets, not only 6.35mm and 3.5mm jacks, but also XLRs and MIDI.

At 35p to 70p each in the UK, they are also an absolute bargain!



You can buy them from www.jackcap.co.uk

3.5 jacks? I'd need about two thousand quids worth in my studio!

[Adam Inglis]

Available directly from the inventor in Australia:

https://kracklekillers.com/shop

Definitely worth keeping a bag or two in your musicians toolkit, alongside the can of deoxit, pliers, screwdrivers, and spare strings!

How cute!
And all this time I've been re-purposing my old used dental brushes ("Piksters") and dunking them in Deoxit to achieve the same effect...

[Martin Walker]

3.5 jacks? I'd need about two thousand quids worth in my studio!

Yes, I can understand that, especially with your love of Eurorack

Personally I'm thankful to have JackCaps in all my horizontally mounted 6.35mm jack sockets (mixing desks and so on), as these are prime targets for falling dust.

I also have them in unoccupied sockets on my keyboards/synths - plenty of musicians who play live find them invaluable on stage for this purpose, as it makes it so much easier in the dark to find the main L/R outputs when some keyboards have a dozen or so sockets on their back panels!

[James Perrett]

3.5 jacks? I'd need about two thousand quids worth in my studio!

Looks like a prime candidate for 3D printing to me - a perfectly good 3D printer and a 1kg roll of filament costs around £150.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6540710

is the first design that I found but there are lots of alternatives.