Roman Beilharz
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- Jun 17, 2023
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Hi everybody,
as a former newbie with very little mic building knowledge, I have evolved to a more experienced builder with a lot more understanding of what's going on under the hood - thanks to this amazing forum. So it is time for a big THANK YOU GUYS and a series of posts to give something back to the community - and be as helpful as possible in times when more and more people seem to establish a solid "it's all about me" attitude.
So if you have cool tricks up your sleeve to share with beginners, that make your mic building life a lot easier and you wish you had come across earlier, this is the place to add them.
I'll make a start with a random collection of accessories I wish I had had right from the start:
1. Get a decent soldering station with controllable temperature and a hot air gun. I know the affordable ones are not always of great overall quality, but this is a game changer compared to the good old stick types.
2. Get a decent middle class DMM. I am happily using an ASTRO AI DMM, but I've heard that if you want to invest more, get a decent FLUKE
Astro AI DMM on Amazon
3. Get a goldsmith set of small pliers of all kinds: round nose, flat nose, long nose, bent nose... and clippers with small heads as well.
4. Set up a solid mic boom stand and attach a Manfrotto super clamp to it. This bugger is great to help you soldering cables, PCBs, or tampering around with parts and capsules:
5. Get a PCB holder like this one
6. Get a set of M3 brass standoffs in a variety of heights.
7. Get a set of M2, M2.5 and M3 screws and nuts in a variety of lengths.
8. Get a set of shrink tubing in a variety of colors and diameters.
9. For point-to-point building and as a general problem solver to reliably connect parts mechanically, a set of nickel plated single leader sleeves in a variety of diameters and lengths with a matching crimper wrench (used for leader bait building for fishing!) came in handy quite often for my builds:
10. Get a package of 0.25 watts resistors in a variety of values (10R - 1M).
Alright, thats all that came to mind in a first go, feel free to add helpful stuff and happy building!
Ro
as a former newbie with very little mic building knowledge, I have evolved to a more experienced builder with a lot more understanding of what's going on under the hood - thanks to this amazing forum. So it is time for a big THANK YOU GUYS and a series of posts to give something back to the community - and be as helpful as possible in times when more and more people seem to establish a solid "it's all about me" attitude.
So if you have cool tricks up your sleeve to share with beginners, that make your mic building life a lot easier and you wish you had come across earlier, this is the place to add them.
I'll make a start with a random collection of accessories I wish I had had right from the start:
1. Get a decent soldering station with controllable temperature and a hot air gun. I know the affordable ones are not always of great overall quality, but this is a game changer compared to the good old stick types.
2. Get a decent middle class DMM. I am happily using an ASTRO AI DMM, but I've heard that if you want to invest more, get a decent FLUKE
Astro AI DMM on Amazon
3. Get a goldsmith set of small pliers of all kinds: round nose, flat nose, long nose, bent nose... and clippers with small heads as well.
4. Set up a solid mic boom stand and attach a Manfrotto super clamp to it. This bugger is great to help you soldering cables, PCBs, or tampering around with parts and capsules:
5. Get a PCB holder like this one
6. Get a set of M3 brass standoffs in a variety of heights.
7. Get a set of M2, M2.5 and M3 screws and nuts in a variety of lengths.
8. Get a set of shrink tubing in a variety of colors and diameters.
9. For point-to-point building and as a general problem solver to reliably connect parts mechanically, a set of nickel plated single leader sleeves in a variety of diameters and lengths with a matching crimper wrench (used for leader bait building for fishing!) came in handy quite often for my builds:
10. Get a package of 0.25 watts resistors in a variety of values (10R - 1M).
Alright, thats all that came to mind in a first go, feel free to add helpful stuff and happy building!
Ro
