putting together electronics

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i consider myself quite handy and quite reasonable at problem solving. if something is broken, i dont just scratch my ass and call someone, i fix it right quick. that being said about myself, i'm very interested in putting together audio components of my own, for example, seventh circle audio products and the like...

but therein lies the rub. the last time i put together any electronics was in 8th grade tech class, excluding a simple soldering job here or there...

i don't want to dive right into a big, costly project and maybe or maybe not fuck it up. what would be a good starting point? la project that will cost me next to nothing, and give me absolutely nothing in return, except practice.

advice advice advice!
 
Maybe try soldering some cables.

If you get a 'third hand' which is a series of alligator clips held together in a very specific way it will make the job much easier.

There are intermidiate project kits you can buy at Radio Shack...


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soldering cables is quite within my realm and experience...
do go on about such radio shack kits
 
orksnork said:
soldering cables is quite within my realm and experience...
do go on about such radio shack kits
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Radio Shack doesn't seem to offer as much in that way anymore, but look for Velleman kits, there are a number of those related to audio, and several cool ones that aren't.
 
Or maybe get one of those AM/FM radio kits? Not sure who sells them now but I put one together along time ago and actually learned quite a bit about how that stuff works. You could also pick up an introductory book on electronics.
 
For about $100 (I think) you can get a kit to build your own theremin.

There are a few books out with titles like "guitar electronics" and "electronics for musicians" That may be a place to start as well.
 
I cut my teeth with the Paia kits (www.paia.com) in the early 80's, and they're still making new ones now. Variety of music-related kits, great documentation, and if you completely screw up you can send it to them for repair/completion. I've built the Gnome, spring verb, vocoder, and some of the old synth modules in the past.

Also got a lot of tools and supplies from Parts Express here in Ohio (www.partsexpress.com). I think they have a handful of electronics kits, though these days I mainly get speaker components from them.

Finally-- if you really want to geek out, there are some books of electronics projects for musicians. One that I read over and over was Craig Anderton's book. I'm sure there are others that are more recent, but that one had some pretty useful stuff in it.
 
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