[sdiy] Tip o' the day

[David G. Dixon]

Hey Fellow Synth DIYers!

Here's your handy-dandy tip of the day:

Suck at design?  Tired of ruining PC boards from doing too much
trial-and-error parts soldering and desoldering, trying to find just the
right value which gives you that "sweet spot"?  Here's a handy tip:

Sacrifice one or two machined-pin IC sockets by melting away the plastic
substrate and recovering the little metal pins.  Then, simply solder these
pins in where you think you might want to change the value of a component on
a PCB.  Now you can simply plug in different resistors/capacitors until you
find that magic combination.  When all is well, you can then desolder the
pins (once) and replace them with the right components, or simply leave them
in.