[sdiy] New Lockbox Synth completed

[John L Marshall]

Scott,

Great little synth! I like the panel.

Good to hear that panels and wiring takes more time than PCBs. I completed
24 each 5U by 2U panels this weekend. I need more pots though.

Take care,
John


----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Bernardi" <sbernardi at attbi.com>
To: "Batz Goodfortune" <batzman at all-electric.com>
Cc: "Synth-DIY list" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] New Lockbox Synth completed


> Neat wiring? I was thinking it looked like a rats' nest myself.
> I made the wires long enough so the lid can stand all the way open.  When
closed,
> they kind of fold in half. I used a lot of cable ties and heat shrink to
group
> the wires together and tried to thread them up the sides. Any wire that
could
> have some tension on it I reinforced with heat shrink and the control (had
a lot
> of problems with wires breaking).  Most of the wires were 24ga stranded.
> The front panel is made of the big full sheet Avery labels printed on a
color
> laser printer. I drilled it from a paper template taped to the front, then
> painted the top white and the sides blue, laid down the Avery labels, then
> covered it in clear Contact paper. The you gotta cut out all those holes
with an
> Exacto knife.
> I made a couple of boo boos. I drilled the PHONES and OUTPUT holes wrong -
they
> are revered. Also, I should have put an attenuator pot on one of the VCF
CV
> inputs. The ADSR's output a peak of 7.5v and that's too much sometimes.  I
built
> the Joystick Controller (see
> http://home.attbi.com/~sbernardi/elec/og2/og3_joystick.html) to remedy
that.
> It's weird how the panel and wiring usually takes more time than designing
the
> circuits and stuffing the PCB's.
>
> Batz Goodfortune wrote:
>
> > Y-ellow Scott 'n' all.
> >
> > At 09:06 AM 6/16/02 -0700, Scott Bernardi wrote:
> > >I just completed a new synth I call the "Lockbox Synth" because I built
> > >it into a lockbox for the case.
> >
> > This is way cool. Nice one. How did you keep the wiring so neat?
Whenever I
> > do stuff like this it ends up looking like a rat's nest. With real rats.
> > Did you silk screen the front or stick the dial markings on somehow?
> >
> > My only suggestion would be to put some handles on the panel at either
end
> > maybe. The knobs are kinda exposed the way they are. And it's always a
> > side-glance that does the damage. But it's a wicked looking synth. Love
it.
> >
> > I hope you never have to get it through an airport though. They'd have
the
> > bomb squad there going. "Is it the green wire or the red one? What the
fuck?"
> >
> > Be absolutely Icebox.
> >
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>
> --
> Scott Bernardi
> sbernardi at attbi.com
>
>