I've fallen in love with modular, but i can hardly afford it, so getting into DIY is my only option. And as someone with no experience whatsoever with electrical engineering, I appreciate these videos so much! really awesome to have things explained in such an understandable way.
I got my first mults by ordering PCBs from the designs given away by North Coast Synthesis together with their design documents, "Passive Multiples and Friends", which also give designs for other unpowered circuits: passive mixers, OR combiners, fixed attenuators, fixed low pass filters/slew rate limiters, fixed high pass filters/DC blockers/gate-to-trigs, and envelope followers. Since PCB manufacturers have minimum orders, my first buy got me a fistful of panels, and I've built a bunch of those plus a few powered circuits that just got fit onto them.
Great video! As someone with an EE background, I can understand an op amp but for some reason still struggle to get my head around jack sockets - things are much clearer after watching this! Please enter me in the giveaway
Pritty neat video, liked it. Also went to your channel to see od this the only video in regards to the DYI Soldering. Listen why wouldn't you makes us an video explaining how to correctly orient/turn capacitors/diodes/transistors/SMD's/vectrols.. There is no such video on Planet Earth. Everyone creates videos about Soldering, but no one explains how not to screw the DYI build and later when plug it into the Bus, burn it - as a consequence of not positioning module parts having in mind +positive and -negative orientation correctly. Do it (if you know how to explain it, and aware of this predicament) ❤
Definitely aware of it :) The problem is that the person laying out the PCB is just a fallible as the rest of us and I've seen plenty of cases where the marking on the board is wrong (or just missing). But there usually is a hint in the schematic about what to do. I'll have to come up with some examples I can demonstrate. Thanks!
Nice introduction vid. No need to put my name in the hat, I've just soldered my own multi just now and I'm quite ok with blundering my way through electronics. 😉 Now busy with designing a small trigger tool. Modular is fun!
I can't remember what it was I soldered with my dad as a kid, I think it was some kind of illegal flashing light on a Kub Kar? This video brought me right back though, and reminded me I shouldn't be so intimidated by DIY electronics. Please squeeze me into this hat, I want to try!
I have made a few hundreds mults for friends and for me, love to make them, I find it relaxing!!! You can even just get a few cheap 2 hp blank panels, some jacks, wire and your are up to go!!!
Great video! I really recommend dealing with the solder fumes in some way. I had a sore throat and a cough for days once after building a larger project. After that I’ve always had a fan running beside me to blow away most of the fumes, or even wear a respirator for longer sessions. But best would probably be a proper fume extractor. I’ve read the fumes can contribute to one developing asthma if you’re exposed to it repeatedly, so be careful everyone!
Glad to see you back! Excited to enjoy more of your videos, always a pleasure. I just got two mults from Andrew with my latest NLC order, so keep me out of the giveaway. Ideally someone just dipping their toes into DIY would get them =)
Congratulations! You were one of the winners of the give-away. I can't find an email for you, but if you go to the info page for my channel, under the "About" tab, you'll get the option to see my email address (after proving you're not a bot). Drop me a line and we'll work things out.
