DIY kits

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DIY: do it yourself!

The topic about external FX on Machinedrum had me reuse my good old guitar FX stompboxes, among them an analog distorsion and delay I soldered myself. Techniguitare kits are relatively easy to assemble (most of them are fuzz/distorsion pedals), were conceived and optimized by guys that really know what they are doing, and I cannot recommend them enough ! For the price (around 50€) you can get FX that are even better than the official ones ! Soldering such FX kits gave me enough confidence to …

DIY synth builders?

Have you tried DIY yourself? With a bit of practice and some fairly basic soldering/desoldering tools you should find it fairly easy to populate the board. I don’t know what sort of prices folks charge for assembly but if it’s by the hour you could save yourself a tidy sum. Some kits have better build doc’s than others but there are loads of resources on the net to help you with schematics, component substitutes etc etc. The DIY scene is pretty huge these days and well supported. Setting up an…

Eurorack DIY & Soldering Tips

Added in hindsight: I asked the mods to move this (semi off topic) convo to a new thread! Perhaps in the future, I or someone else can use this thread for any posts or questions regarding Eurorack DIY & soldering. I DIY’ed a module! Simple passive filterbank. Great kit for a first module to diy. I could’ve used a somewhat smaller soldering tip, as this kit has very little soldering holes or how they’re called. But apart from that a great first build, done in an hour I think. [image] [image…

DIY Eurorack modules

It’s not a simple answer - you need to factor in your time to build, debug, test, etc. Plus you need to factor in the cost of the tools. If you dont place a cost on your time then the costs reduce (I view the building as leisure time and use it to learn - I try to understand everything I build - hardware and firmware) I think to reliably build modules (in ~150 modules, so far not had a failure) you need: an oscilloscipe (essential to test and debug) Decent solder station (needs to be temp co…

DIY Pedals

Hello all, I fancy trying my hand at some DIY pedal building. Does anyone have advice on good kits and suppliers? FYI, I’m in the UK, and haven’t built a pedal before… But I solder cables regularly and build lamps, so I should be able to figure it out ok - I like a challenge, and I’m a very quick study! I’m keen to try: distortion stuff, something that would replicate the high gain / classic distortion settings of Analog Heat modulation, along the lines of shallow water or Boss DC-2 passive …