I’m the guy who sold the OT to Allerian. Someone bought it from me before Allerian and promptly returned it along with this little added bonus in the right main output jack. Somehow both of us missed it on inspection…
Anyway, Allerian’s good people and a fellow Brew City Elektronaut so I promptly offered to buy it back for what he paid me for it. (To prove what a cool cat he is, he even let me keep the 64GB CF card he bought for it!)
Took it home, scarfed down some McDinner, and then got to work.
10 minutes later…
I was elated to find that the offending jack tip was completely hollow, making it fairly easy to get a grip on it from inside rather than trying to use glue or pliers. I got it past the first metal tab inside the jack with a long self tapper cased in rubber cable shielding (to protect the jack), then carefully guided it out with a small screwdriver while gently nudging the second contact out of the way with an even smaller screwdriver.
Now the only questions that remain are:
1: Should I send the offending tip back to it’s rightful owner?
2: Does some cosmic force REALLY want me to have this Octatrack? Should I keep it? I already have Ableton/Push and a MPC-1000.