Non-electro DIY

LetterBeacon · Joined: Mar 18, 2008 Posts: 454 Location: London, UK

I'm having lots of fun building the synths and other DIY projects available from Ray Wilson and the other affiliates of this site, but are there any audio DIY sites that deal with things like compressors, EQs etc. that I could build for my studio? A sort of Music From Outer Space for analogue mixing boards and microphones? I've had a look on Google, but I haven't come across anything yet...

Ilanode · Joined: Sep 14, 2007 Posts: 80 Location: Berlin/FRG

PAiA has some kits available such as limiter, compr., mic preamp etc.

Mooger5 · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:52 am Post subject:

The Gyraf Audio site has amazing DIY projects based on classic equipment. Last time I checked there were PCBs available for the SSL compressor.

http://www.gyraf.dk/gy_pd/gyraf_diy.html

LetterBeacon · Joined: Mar 18, 2008 Posts: 454 Location: London, UK

Great - thanks very much for those suggestions!

One of the reasons I started DIY synth building was because if you put the time and effort in, you can end up with amazing analogue synths at a fraction of the price; I guess I also want to apply that to studio equipment too.

Mooger5 · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:44 am Post subject:

Ýou´re right. The MFOS kits may be cheap and easy to build but from the schematics you can see how they pretty much follow the standards, right? So they deserve the best outboard equipment you can get, just like any commercial synth or the higher-end DIY stuff.

I added this page to my favourites some time ago:
http://www.nrgrecording.de/diy.html

It´s all DIY. No schematics, but nice "how-to", inspiring pics of gear. They´re connected to Gyraf anyway.

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bearblock · Joined: Sep 27, 2006 Posts: 90 Location: uk Audio files: 1

http://www.jlmaudio.com/
http://www.prodigy-pro.com/forum/

also good Very Happy

Pehr · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:59 pm Post subject:

http://www.picocompressor.com/picocomp/PCB-Kits/index.htm
http://sound.westhost.com/project75.htm
http://sound.westhost.com/project64.htm

LetterBeacon · Joined: Mar 18, 2008 Posts: 454 Location: London, UK

Thanks guys - all links have been bookmarked!

loss1234 · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:39 am Post subject:

i also really like http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/

as there is often discussion of other effects like delay, phaser, eq, compression, distortion,etc and there are literally thousands of members and over 60,000 posts to search through. (you must register to be able to search)

often the conversations are extremely exhaustive and like this forum, there are many experts in their field willing to help.

i highly recommend it! plus many of the EM people are over there as well.

danielwarner · Joined: Dec 18, 2006 Posts: 65 Location: Sacramento

Yeah I love diystompboxes.com, been lurking there for ages and finally registered