[quote author="Bluzzi"]
Now making a preamp, EQ or compressor is different. I tell you if guys here like Chris are saying to beware, I would think twice.
Jim[/quote]
I agree 100%. a pre, comp or compressor are totally different. Jim, I think you have a great idea of Jimbo building a smaller project with his buddy to test the waters. I see now that my posts might sound overly negative, but that wasn't really my intention. I've been doing a lot of work on my house lately, so a construction analogy comes to mind.
It's pretty easy to build a spare bedroom in your house. It's a fair amount harder to build room with other functions, like a kitchen or bathroom. It is an entirely different issue building a whole house. Although a house is nothing but a bunch of rooms, the difficulty increases exponentially with the scale of the project. How the rooms relate to each other must be considered, how the loads spread out over the entire structure, how the utilities common to each of the rooms will work and flow, plumbing, electricity, HVAC, CATV, etc. That being said, I have a friend who did build her own house from scratch, with only the help of her former husband. It still can be done, but don't underestimate what you are getting into (notice I said former husband...). If I recall correctly, Rupert Neve swore that he would never design and build another console as long as he lived :shock: . Check out the web pages of the folks who replied to this post, there was at least one of us who did build a console from scratch. It surely can be done.
If you go ahead with the build, I am totally exited for you and wish the best of luck. Come back here often, I am sure there are a lot of interested folks who would love to help with whatever they can, myself included. :thumb:
-Chris