[sdiy] About the bassace kit

[Tom Arnold]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:05:53PM +0100, J. Agudo wrote:
> I am interested in order the  BassAce, and I want to know a couple of things: 
> 
> You send the components, all of the part lists, and the board apart, and then 
> you have to solder it, is it like that?, what i mean, it is that i would like 
> to build it before in protoboard (in a blank module) and then make the PC 
> Board, if the components are not soldered yet, is what I want to know. 

I'd highly suggest you join efmsupport at yahoogroups.com.

In summary : The Bassace comes as a board with a small parts kit.  This is
all the parts you need to populate the board, but no pots or switches or
jacks or blank panel.

The board requires some modifications out of the box, so I'd do those first
and install the parts around those modifications.  All the modifications
revolve around cheap parts ( resistors ) and adding jumpers so it'd
be possible to protoboard it then pick up a few parts and start on the board
modifications although I dont think I understand why you'd protoboard something
this complex when you had the PCB all there to populate.

Tom's got a new synth listed on his page at www.ele4music.com, the Tomcat.
This has been mentioned a bit on the efmsupport list.  Much much easier to
assemble then a Bassace, probably easier to assemble then a Fatman if Tom
does up PAIA quality instructions as there are no flywires.

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