Looking for something cheap and easy!

therecordingart · Mar 25, 2005

Hey guys...I've always been into soldering/building things (R/C cars, car audio/video), but don't have any experience reading schematics. I have a pretty good understanding of basic circuits, ohms law, and pretty much what you'd learn in a high school electronics class. I can read/use a multimeter and am decent at soldering. (I know when I have a bad joint)

Anyway....since I'm a newbie to PCB, schematics, and pretty much everything related to this....is there a pretty cheap (under $100) and semi-easy project that you would reccomend I try. Eventually I want to buy/build a Seventh Circle preamp kit, but want to make sure that I wont throw $300 out the window and screw it up or burn up the board.

If you can think of anything at all....guitar pedal, DI box, simple preamp....anything you think a newbie with a soldering iron could tackle without blowing too much money.

Thanks in advance!

pucho812 · Mar 25, 2005

build a passive DI. hands down easy, Hands down useful and a good way to get started on this stuff if you ask me. Check out the Jensen transformers website for some good passive DI schematics..

Infernal_Death · Mar 25, 2005

As always with this question, the green mic preamp should be considered. It's very easy to build, you can buy pcb's for the green here and since it's transformerless and doesn't have special parts, it's quite cheap to build.
Well i don't think you can put one together for under $100 with a case but it shouldn't be much more expensive. 19" rack cases are just expensive.

Oh and as a bonus you get a very nice preamp :thumb:

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