Anyone here build their own hardware gear?
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Anyone here build their own hardware gear?
Just curious if anyone builds or has built anything in the past. I am in the middle of a project now and would love to talk and such with someone on this forum who may be doing similar things.
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Re: Anyone here build their own hardware gear?
not really proper studio gear or anything but I built a fuzz pedal for guitar once, but it pretty much fell to bits and I lost the schematic (which i pretty much made up loosely based on a Fuzz Face) so it's sitting in my room with a few wires sticking out that I have no idea where to put back 
anyway, this is what it sounded like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9M74CXkuG0

anyway, this is what it sounded like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9M74CXkuG0
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Re: Anyone here build their own hardware gear?
I'm aware of a few people here that have built some stuff. I've sworn that I'm going to build something by years end, even just a noise synth.
Re: Anyone here build their own hardware gear?
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Re: Anyone here build their own hardware gear?
in 1997 i built a feed back machine/tape destroyer buy tacking a boom box and extending the wires on the tape head, extending the wires on one speaker and then using the wires for the second speaker as an output. started with the idea i could record on tapes, cut them up and using it like free dubplates for scatching efx. didnt work very well so i turned it into the most annoying feedback machine ever. i lived with my partents at the time so you can imagine how much they it.
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Re: Anyone here build their own hardware gear?
Heres my thread on my DIY creations
Built a couple of synths so far, only from kits, not designed anything yet.
Been stupidly busy last two weeks but next project is some techno box built from 808 clone components and some other bits. Should be fun! Noise generator thingy with light dependant resistors (LDRs) i made but need to solder up a permanent version. Sounded pretty sick tbh.
Also a programmer and a second filter (jupiter8
) for the shruthi in my thread.
I think you pmd me a while ago (xmas) and i pmd you back, never heard anything back.

Built a couple of synths so far, only from kits, not designed anything yet.
Been stupidly busy last two weeks but next project is some techno box built from 808 clone components and some other bits. Should be fun! Noise generator thingy with light dependant resistors (LDRs) i made but need to solder up a permanent version. Sounded pretty sick tbh.
Also a programmer and a second filter (jupiter8

I think you pmd me a while ago (xmas) and i pmd you back, never heard anything back.


Re: Anyone here build their own hardware gear?
yea I built guitar pedals in the past. basically, its not hard at all but you need to learn how to solder correctly first. finding a bad connection can be a bitch, a bit like trying to figure out which of the Christmas lights is broken!
Re: Anyone here build their own hardware gear?
Holy Anus that was an epic surprise in my PM box. Got lost in the shuffle my bad.paradigm x wrote:Heres my thread on my DIY creations
Built a couple of synths so far, only from kits, not designed anything yet.
Been stupidly busy last two weeks but next project is some techno box built from 808 clone components and some other bits. Should be fun! Noise generator thingy with light dependant resistors (LDRs) i made but need to solder up a permanent version. Sounded pretty sick tbh.
Also a programmer and a second filter (jupiter8) for the shruthi in my thread.
I think you pmd me a while ago (xmas) and i pmd you back, never heard anything back.![]()
Yeah Sweet when I am more free I will PM/discuss with you.
How far did you get in that?
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built, no, fix, all the time.
actually strike that, built a whole bunch of homebrew v-drum pads this spring.
actually strike that, built a whole bunch of homebrew v-drum pads this spring.
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Re: Anyone here build their own hardware gear?
Heh. Cool. Erm, well not much further TBH; i have a schematic of a very basic initial version, more of a block diagram really; but just been ridiculously busy recently, not had chance to finish. Did finish my x0xbox tho. Getting a few components in soon, and found a midi syncd LFO chip which could be perfect; geezer sent me some samples in march and theyve still not arriveddecree wrote:Holy Anus that was an epic surprise in my PM box. Got lost in the shuffle my bad.paradigm x wrote:Heres my thread on my DIY creations
Built a couple of synths so far, only from kits, not designed anything yet.
Been stupidly busy last two weeks but next project is some techno box built from 808 clone components and some other bits. Should be fun! Noise generator thingy with light dependant resistors (LDRs) i made but need to solder up a permanent version. Sounded pretty sick tbh.
Also a programmer and a second filter (jupiter8) for the shruthi in my thread.
I think you pmd me a while ago (xmas) and i pmd you back, never heard anything back.![]()
Yeah Sweet when I am more free I will PM/discuss with you.
How far did you get in that?

Ironically, i have yet more decorating to do in next 2 weeks as wife and my son are away; but hoping to get a lot more free time as well. Ill jump back on it.
Nice one.
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Re: Anyone here build their own hardware gear?
I have never built from scratch either in terms of design or kit form but have a custom built eq and I have
done a fair amount of equipment modding. There is a lot to go wrong when building your own gear and you need
lots of time as well. Time is the main issue in fact, even modding stuff takes a lot of time to research.
done a fair amount of equipment modding. There is a lot to go wrong when building your own gear and you need
lots of time as well. Time is the main issue in fact, even modding stuff takes a lot of time to research.
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Re: Anyone here build their own hardware gear?
Yeah I already can tell, laid out a plan and started putting together parts I ordered...safeandsound wrote:I have never built from scratch either in terms of design or kit form but have a custom built eq and I have
done a fair amount of equipment modding. There is a lot to go wrong when building your own gear and you need
lots of time as well. Time is the main issue in fact, even modding stuff takes a lot of time to research.
I keep missing a part and it stalls me for days
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Re: Anyone here build their own hardware gear?
good times, i built a fuzz pedal once, worked great for about 2 days, then stopped working and i couldnt figure out why.1point5 wrote:not really proper studio gear or anything but I built a fuzz pedal for guitar once, but it pretty much fell to bits and I lost the schematic (which i pretty much made up loosely based on a Fuzz Face) so it's sitting in my room with a few wires sticking out that I have no idea where to put back
anyway, this is what it sounded like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9M74CXkuG0
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