down with clones

[CJ]

Gus, I use those old surplus CTS switches to control all those relays.
I figured the sealed contacts would stay quietier over time.

 

[clintrubber]

Come on people build something point to point or on perf board or with the junk you have.

While I get your point and kind of agree, don't judge too fast or consider all things the same.
I've been doing amps & stuff from nothing, like emptying old TV-sets and making tubed ptp-wired amps from that. For years. Done countless perfboard circuits.

But next to more experimental or not-readily-available stuff I also want to make me some of the goodies discussed here. Like the SSL & 1176. After all it's at least a bit about making some music, so to get me there a bit quicker an available PCB is helping (that's at least my illusion/impression, no real proof so far :wink: ) I don't have the same amount of time anymore than I used to, so some help (in the form of a PCB) can be good when the intended circuit is more or less clear. Experimental stuff is another thing.




Bye,

Peter

 

[clintrubber]

I am not picking on anyone. I am trying to get a conversation going about building stuff.

No offense taken ! :thumb:

About cutting corners...:
At work we did some kind of combined analog & digital system some five years ago. Digital with four gates a package, and lots of it.
A colleague & I made a multi-card breadboard of it - but just recently we had a trainee making a FPGA version of it. Not fair ! While we learned a lot more, he didn't get his nose full or solder fumes ! :wink:

 

[Tim Campbell]

What PCB??????????????????

 

[Gus]

Tim

What electronics will be used with that capsule?

 

[Consul]

This subject does make me think about what it is I'm doing, what I want out of my own personal project studio, and what my final goals are.

Naturally, my goal is to record my own compositions as listenable music. I can do this with Mackie, Behringer, and SP products. Or, I can spend some time, learn (in my case, re-learn) electronics, and build myself a better signal chain from the price of that cheap one I just described.

Since I currently have all the time in the world, it seems like a better way to go.

I have no junk box, so I'm starting from total scratch. This means no playing around on breadboards with different components and designs. For me, I need to start with something I know will work well. Cloning an 1176 or a Pultec is something I know will work well.

It may all become moot anyway, as I have no job, I'm rapidly getting further behind on my debt, and I am now a full-time college student. I fear I will never see the day the music in my head will finally be recorded in a good-sounding way, if at all.

Sorry for that rant, but in a way, I'm not sorry at all. Stories like this need to be told every once in a while.

 

[yan_b]

cj

i see brina's banks used silicon implants ,how do they hold up? i ask because, well never mind.

 

[Tim Campbell]

When I'm done with this type prototype I'm planning on making at least one with your Sony 800G electronics but I promise not to use a PCB.

Here's me trying one with G7 electronics (point to point wired of course)

 

[Mbira]

I have almost finished a little guitar amp (tube) using turret board, and a Headphone doing point-to-point. I really liked the turret alot better. It has such a cool and classy look-plus we have a lot of the old turret stands here at work-so it's free.

No original designs though, yet :sad: .

Pics will come soon...

joel

 

[Chuck78]

http://home.wideopenwest.com/~tflanagan7020/

This is the Hamptone Fet Pre. Still working on it.

 

[CJ]

Yan, that's actually canning wax. Low melting point. Found out one day when I left that MEQ-5 in the back seat of the car with the windows rolled up. I came out and looked at the inductors and there was no wax. What the ....!
Oh well, I now have a water proof back seat. Great for the drive in movies! :razz:

 

[mcs]

[quote author="Gus"]I know some here do build this way?[/quote]
How about this one?

Primitive enough?

Best regards,

Mikkel C. Simonsen

 

[Gus]

I see some of the people understand the spirit of my post, I mean this in a very good way. I like the pictures alot!

FWIW one day a few years ago I was working on a guitar over drive. It was late an I did not have a nice metal box. I built the overdrive in a coffee can. Funny thing people people seem to like that is is built in a coffee can.

This might sound strange but I think of DIY building stuff as a form of art

I wanted to do something different with a microphone thats part of the reason for the square microphone.

have fun

 

[strangeandbouncy]

NNooo!


VIVA Clones, i'd say! and everything else on this Forum, Homegrown or not. Each to their own, what! what!

I LOVE everything on this Forum. Not sure my wife does tho' as little bits n' pieces are breeding exponentially around our already crowded flat. . . .


ho Hum,

Andy P

 

[Family Hoof]

[quote author="mcs"][quote author="Gus"]I know some here do build this way?[/quote]
How about this one?

Primitive enough?

Best regards,

Mikkel C. Simonsen[/quote]
I was already aware that Danes make the best cookies.

-Jens

 

[Emperor-TK]

How about some fruitcake to go with those cookies?

Still waiting for the rest of the components to arrive.

-Chris

 

[CJ]

LMAO! Don't try getting that on the airplane!
:thumb:

 

[mike_relay]

[quote author="Emperor-TK"]How about some fruitcake to go with those cookies?

Still waiting for the rest of the components to arrive.

-Chris[/quote]

That's the coolest thing I've ever seen!
I'm saving all my cans from now on, though I'll be sticking to clones for a while. I figure it's the best way to learn.

 

[soundguy]

I started out building fuzz boxes on perf from schems I found on the web and the whole thing was totally organic. The places where I made mistakes was ALWAYS with interconnect and it really forced me to get into the circuit and led to alot of understanding about what I was working on. Ive found that with PCB's Im not faced with actually understanding how anyhting works as all the interconnect is just there on the board. For instance, I built a GSSL and it sounds great and it works great but I never went out of my way to fully understand the circuit and to this day I dont, but I built one. Just stuffed the board. Thats sorta like one step deeper than jjust racking an old thing, its real easy to stuff a board, hook up the wiring, have it work right the first time and really have no idea what you've built, I know that has happened to me. Wiring something on perf, I find I really have to think about the circuit, when you are staring at a tray of parts, a piece of board and a schematic you really think about putting it together in a way that stuffing a board never commands. For me, stuffing a PCB is lazy and its real easy to corner yourself in that laziness to not want to build on perf. I see where gus is coming from, its a good practice for guys starting out to build on perf, you'll really get a lot out of it. If you've only stuffed PCB's, you should give it a try, especially for a circuit like a 312, you'll laugh that you ever waited on a board to do that project, you could bang one of those out on perf in probably 2o minutes.

dave

 

[owel]

Here's a preamp I've been working in my spare time. Unfortunately, I haven't worked on it for the past 3 months... from pcb design, to etching, everything is homemade. I'd like it to look like a "Neve" so I have 2 power transistors there, hehehe. (twice as cool as Neve

This thing is powered by 48VDC so I don't have to fool around with separate PSU for the phantom power and main circuitry.

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