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Day 3 of DIY: gently caress I hate breadboard jumpers, also my first breadboard 'patch' didnt do anything but make the Schmidt trigger chip real hot  Hope I didn't fry it.
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xzzy posted:I appreciate their media campaign accurately portraying the sounds I'd get out of it though. It really shows what synth hardware enthusiasts can expect to hear. (Also I love that “shreds” videos are still around in TYOOL 2023 in spirit)
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Wanna see and hear him do the worm
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 It's now becoming a daily routine to have an improvised rave in the park through my IEM's. 
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Tayter Swift posted:Day 3 of DIY: gently caress I hate breadboard jumpers, also my first breadboard 'patch' didnt do anything but make the Schmidt trigger chip real hot Like winding a motor for a class project. "I made it dual function. It spins AND heats(maybe a bit too much)" Now yah get to practice troubleshooting.
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B33rChiller posted:I know that feeling. I bought two VCO kits so I swapped the chip and sure enough I fried the first one. At least they're cheap!
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Im trying to solder two three-pin transistors that are right next to each other and I just don't have the eyesight to do this at all, even with a magnifier. Have a bad feeling I'm just going to have to sell these kits on unless my optometrist has some help I have astigmatism and I know my eyesight isn't great but holy poo poo I can just feel it getting worse trying to do this.
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Tayter Swift posted:Im trying to solder two three-pin transistors that are right next to each other and I just don't have the eyesight to do this at all, even with a magnifier. Have a bad feeling I'm just going to have to sell these kits on unless my optometrist has some help I bought a magnifying glass to help with SMD stuff. I’d try something like that before giving up. There’s also the headband/visor magnifiers that you wear, but I found I prefer a regular, Sherlock Holmes style hand-held one, personally.
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Tayter Swift posted:unless my optometrist has some help If you are over 40 it might be time for a pair of reading glasses. Definitely hit up your optometrist.
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Tayter Swift posted:Im trying to solder two three-pin transistors that are right next to each other and I just don't have the eyesight to do this at all, even with a magnifier. Have a bad feeling I'm just going to have to sell these kits on unless my optometrist has some help https://youtu.be/B3YWHGVLLnM
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Thanks all, and sorry for the panic attack. It's the first time I've really noticed my close-up vision being affected. Hell my laptop screen is maybe 12 inches away right now and I'm seeing fine without glasses. I do have a couple magnifiers including my phone but it was still frustrating. There's a lot of flux on the board which is causing a lot of glare and not helping matters. I was able to undo the mistake I made (I think; have to check later), but I need to get some IPA to clean it off or something before I work on it again.
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I use a mag with a circline tube in it on an arm, can’t see poo poo without it.
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Eccles posted:If you are over 40 it might be time for a pair of reading glasses. Definitely hit up your optometrist. I finally got readers this year, just boring retail store ones, and holy shot the difference they make. (Don't get the blue filtering ones, that poo poo is a scam AND tends to reflect light from behind you into your eyes.)
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 My new dawless battery operated rig. My next park session is going to be fun 
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I just had a great customer service experience. I had ordered a used vco module that seemed cool and affordable. I was getting hyped for it, and watching demos, etc. Then I wondered if it could go down onto lfo range. Looking into the company a bit more, I discovered they're on the same island as me, and I could just call them up without worry of international calling. I called the shop, and said I've got a question about the quadtec 101 . The guy on the other end said "hold on, I'll let you talk to Phil. He designed it." Wow! Had a little chat with him, and he fired up his rig to test, since he wasn't sure how low it could go. "I think I coded 17 Hz as the minimum, but I'm not sure. Gimme a second" Real nice. https://www.cctv.fm/shop
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fuctifino posted:
Needs a key you have to turn to power it on. And a big red button under a protective shroud so people think you're about to launch some nukes.
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B33rChiller posted:Something like this might be helpful. Hey wow I thought of you when I found a USB microscope at the thrift store today for $15. This could be a real game changer in my soldering, not sure. It only has 250x and to zoom out you have to move the camera further away and it autofocuses at 250x x whatever distance it is, but here it is at first try:   I think it looks mighty useful even if it isn't as nice as the one you linked above. ED but it's from Plugable, the accessories people and it's very minimal, pretty elegant design. And only $38 on Amazon.
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So today was a major thrift store haul, I found a REALLY nice bass amp and a Techtronic O scope. I'll be trying to sell or swap this loving nice bass amp for something I can use, but I could maybe use a little advice on how to hook up this O scope to see if it works. Some lights come on when I power it up.   Oh, and here is the bass amp, in case anybody is interested in swapping a nice piece of gear for it, I'll list it properly on SA Mart shortly. 
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petit choux posted:I can use, but I could maybe use a little advice on how to hook up this O scope to see if it works. Some lights come on when I power it up. Manual for the scope can be found here: https://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/453 There is a CAL output in the upper right that should be outputting a 1 Khz sine wave. You can hook that up to an input, if you have the right cable (and probably some terminator resistor thingies if the signal looks wonky). But RTFM, etc.
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Eccles posted:Manual for the scope can be found here: https://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/453 Wow thanks, I am also asking at the electronics thread, and I'm not going to continue on here. That's impressive though, got a manual link here first. I'm sure you post in both.
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a big regret of mine in hindsight was grabbing like three analog oscilloscopes in 2009 that my alma mater’s physics dept was giving away for free—this is like four years before I got into synths—and then, not knowing what to do with them, leaving them with an ex roommate who, at best, I think sold them to a guy he knew and at worst left them for the landlord to toss.
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An analog scope is one of those things I always want but really don't have any consistent use for, so I'm sort of just hoping the universe will drop one in my lap at some point. Hasn't happened yet though!
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MockingQuantum posted:An analog scope is one of those things I always want but really don't have any consistent use for, so I'm sort of just hoping the universe will drop one in my lap at some point. Hasn't happened yet though! Well it may not have happened here either. Not getting it working so far.
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Holy poo poo it works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEftjR3dXYk
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petit choux posted:I found a REALLY nice bass amp jfc you weren’t kidding, how tf do you find these things at a thrift store edit: looks like 1968-1973 era based on standby switch, poo poo goes for over $2k lol https://reverb.com/news/the-golden-age-of-the-ampeg-b-15-1960-1980 Pillow Face fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Jun 22, 2023 |
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 I added a second nanokey2 to the portable battery operated rig. It allows me to play to instruments with the left hand, while being able to use the right on the Deluge. e: It's officially a time machine. I switch it on, and suddenly find myself 30 mins into the future and feeling happy fuctifino fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Jun 24, 2023 |
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Where can I get a cheap box and rails in British Columbia? I finally have enough of a income stream to consider building a rack.
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if you've got the tools, make a box and cut down these: https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Vector/TS600?qs=MufAK3yimRPs3mcEqQASeQ%3D%3D (this is for a 60" section) otherwise probably either Tip Top or Behringer's 19" rack compatible kits and a studio rack of appropriate dimensions
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95% sure I'm going to buy a model:samples but wouldn't mind a sense check. Will mostly be using it as a drum machine paired with a Roland S1 as poly synth but may use it standalone from time to time. I'd like to make some IDMish + future garage stuff and mostly play 'live' rather than pre-sequence everything. I'm thinking I can load in some 909 and Burial-esque samples. I like that it has para-meter possibilities and you can play the trigger probability pretty easily which I like to do. Conditional stuff is cool too. In this price range and for that use am I missing out on anything else obvious? Volca beats / drums looks less ergonomic and doesn't have the parameters I want to perform with as easily accessible. Nigel Tufnel fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Jun 27, 2023 |
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Big OpSix is out of review embargo, prolly gonna cost $2k like Big Wavestate does https://youtu.be/DzIZwP7DMMo
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Everyone: Get rid of the keyboard on the OpSix! We all have MIDI keyboards and it's too big for our desktops! Korg: Bigger keyboards? Okay
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For $2k I'd expect the functionality of the trio of them
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Papa Was A Video Toaster posted:Where can I get a cheap box and rails in British Columbia? I finally have enough of a income stream to consider building a rack. Can you cut wood and drive screws? Do you have access to small lumber like 2x4 size?
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Pillow Face posted:jfc you weren’t kidding, how tf do you find these things at a thrift store I've found a few valuable things now and then. I look for things that I'm interested in generally, like my vinyl collection is unsurpassed. For motivational speakers and belly dance records.
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petit choux posted:Can you cut wood and drive screws? Do you have access to small lumber like 2x4 size? Got a skillsaw and a drill gun, yeah. Not sure about access to lumber.
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Papa Was A Video Toaster posted:Got a skillsaw and a drill gun, yeah. Not sure about access to lumber. I have just gotten my rack parts on ebay, but I haven't made a full eurorack setup. I have a couple 19" racks set up using cheap scrap lumber, I can't imagine it would cost all that much to build one or for that matter, a box with cheap plywood. The expensive part is the ps, cabling, rails. And would you use any kind of shielding, typically? I don't think I've been seeing a lot of shielding on these rack setups we see posted here sometimes, right? ED: but it does seem to me that building your own box probably saves you a little over a ready-made.
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You guys are agents from Arturia trying to get me to buy a Rackbrute, aren't you..... I've never been able to get into properly using Softube Modular, even though I bought some really cool modules. I really have no idea what I'm supposed to do with it, and while I did find a really cool series of tutorials on the program, they're really really long, and I just can't muster the interest level to watch them. I usually get a basic oscillator/filter/amp thing going, and then lose interest, so I've decided that modular probably isn't for me, although I imagine using the physical hardware would be more intuitive.
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im_sorry posted:You guys are agents from Arturia trying to get me to buy a Rackbrute, aren't you..... ehhhhhh, about 6 one way, half a dozen the other, from my perspective. If you're not digging it with emulation, hardware might just be an expensive sinkhole that you don't end up using anyway.
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