Tutorial Re: Schematics Archive

[JWBarlow at aol.com]

I strongly agree with Tony's comments below regarding the need for good 
tutorial information to be made available. I posed the question to some other 
people on the list (when we were buying our copies of The Art of Electronics 
last month) about seeing if some of the more advanced among listers would be 
interested in making a synth/audio related online tutorial that roughly 
paralleled The Art of E. There did seem to be some interest then, and from my 
own experience I can say I've long been looking for that ONE book (165 pgs. 
max. I hope) that would take me from novice to Buchla type modules in three 
months -- it seems like there are posts similar to this every couple of 
months. A good tutorial site might at once dispel this type of thought, while 
giving useful information at beginning to intermediate skill levels.


BTW, The Art of E. is laid out in such a way that it could be very conducive 
to a strictly audio related tutorial: Chap 1 deals with basic Rs, Cs, and Is 
(so one could use examples of PSUs, passive tone controls, mics, and guitar 
PUs, etc.). Chap 2 deals with transistors (examples of exponential 
converters, simple fuzz boxes, etc.). Chap 3 deals with... er, eh, OK I'm 
still on chap 2, but you get the idea.

John B.

In a message dated 4/12/99 9:37:48 AM, clark at andrews.edu writes:

>   I would second this.  After all, there are many people with a "mass
>of 
>schematics", me included.  But you are right, most sites do not aim 
>themselves towards the novice/newbie DIY'er.  I think it would be great
>for more "tutorials" to be added to the net, in fact I have a section of
>my site set up for this purpose.  But it doesn't matter where the 
>information is located, just as long as it is accessible.
>