[sdiy] another newbie

[Tim Parkhurst]

Welcome to the SDIY mailing list! Yes, this list is definitely active. To
tell you the truth, I've found the people on this list to be VERY talented
and EXTREMELY helpful. It's a very nice 'community' and everybody tries to
pitch in with suggestions and help when a subject they really know about
comes up. Valid topics are just about anything involving synthesizers or
audio, especially when it comes to building or modifying equipment. We're
mostly analog freaks, but digital and digital/analog hybrid equipment topics
are becoming more and more popular.

Hope you have a great time building and playing with modular synth
equipment. Blacet, PAIA and many others are excellent starting points. Yes,
it's monophonic, no, it doesn't have patch memory, but there's nothing quite
like the feeling of tweaking those knobs and REALLY getting your hands on a
sound. One word of caution: building synth equipment CAN be addictive. If
you start getting into it, you can say goodbye to most of your spare money
and spare time. Maybe we should start a support group... "Hi, my name is Tim
and I'm a synthesizer addict." "(group answers) Hi, Tim." 


Tim Servo

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bob smith [mailto:zenkigen_diy at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:21 PM
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: [sdiy] another newbie
> 
> hello all, i hope this mailing list is still active...
> i have been producing electronic music on japanese
> roland/yamaha products for the past 8 years, all
> romplers.  as i was browsing the local bookstore i
> found a book called 'vintage synthesizers'.  im sure
> you are all familiar with it.  WOW!! ... so within the
> past weeks i discovered the whole underground modular
> movement, and now the diy community.  i am totally
> amazed, yet kind of discouraged as it seems the diy
> scene peaked in the 90's.  hopefully this place is
> still active.
> 
> i have about 3 years educational/lab experience in
> basic electronics that i picked up in a vocational
> school about 10 years ago.  from there ended up
> getting into telecommunications, and have been using
> computers since.  so now i find myself back to the
> soldering iron, and picking up some basic books on
> electronics to brush up before i start any projects.
> I am going to start with building a diverse number of
> kits and integrating them into one case (some of those
> fatman mods really inspired me), specifically the paia
> kits.  this may take a year or two, in no rush.  from
> there branching off into a MOTM/oakley project.  i am
> definately a newbie, so try to take it easy on me.
> 
> dont worry i wont flood the place with posts (this may
> be my only one for quite a while), i am trying to
> compile books, test equipment, etc.  i do ask however
> if anyone has links for any texts/schematics/info
> relating to diy in anyway, please let me know.  I
> unfortunately am finding too often dead links.
> hopefully someone is compiling a database of some
> sort.  thank you all for your contributions, and
> help... now i will sit back in the corner and be a
> sponge, hopefully being able to contribute one day.
> 
> zenkigen
> 
> 
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