[sdiy] Starting Point?

[Roman Sowa]

if I had one piece of advice to give to teenage me it would be: "go out, 
spend more time with other kids, forget about this electronic stuff it 
leads you to a dark hole"

Roman

W dniu 2020-10-10 o 00:49, Peter Pearson pisze:
> Thinking about this more, if I had one piece of advice to give to 
> teenage me, it would be to buy a proper soldering station like a Hakko 
> 936 or similar (used are pretty cheap!) with a chisel tip.  If I could 
> go back and do my first projects with a station that could actually 
> solder instead of a plug straight in the wall radioshack iron I think 
> I would've made a lot of progress a lot faster.  I'm sure my soldering 
> was bad at the start but a garbage soldering iron was a big roadblock 
> and made me think I was never going to learn.
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 6:19 PM Jason Proctor <jason at redfish.net 
> <mailto:jason at redfish.net>> wrote:
>
>     How is Waveform not Synth-Op? I'm not understanding.
>
>
>     On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 3:11 PM MTG
>     <grant at musictechnologiesgroup.com
>     <mailto:grant at musictechnologiesgroup.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     > There is so much great stuff out there, I was hoping Waveform
>     would take
>     > the Tape-Op concept and make a Synth-Op magazine. I guess we are
>     still
>     > waiting.
>     >
>     > On 10/9/2020 2:15 PM, David Simpson wrote:
>     > > Filmmaker here, but newbie to the synth community.
>     > >
>     > > I'd love to collaborate on this with those that have the
>     contacts. I am
>     > > based in New York.
>     > >
>     > > - David
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2020, 4:51 PM Peter Pearson
>     <electrocontinuo at gmail.com <mailto:electrocontinuo at gmail.com>
>     > > <mailto:electrocontinuo at gmail.com
>     <mailto:electrocontinuo at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>     > >
>     > >     2nd (10th?) for PAIA here.  I built their theremin in high
>     school
>     > >     and never looked back.
>     > >
>     > >     It costs money, but I can highly recommend the tech
>     mentoring course
>     > >     offered by The Analog Lab.  Jeff (the owner) used to be a
>     keyboard
>     > >     tech for Pink Floyd during the glory days and managed
>     their state of
>     > >     the art sound system back in the day (as well as working with
>     > >     Vangelis).  He's been doing synth repairs since Moogs and
>     ARPs were
>     > >     new off the assembly line.  He also helped design the
>     Octave Plateau
>     > >     Voyetra 8.  A few links along those lines:
>     > >
>     > > https://www.theanaloglab.com/training
>     <https://www.theanaloglab.com/training>
>     > >
>     > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OrU79WWztg&t=8s
>     <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OrU79WWztg&t=8s>
>     > >
>     > >
>     https://louderthanwar.com/the-development-of-large-rock-sound-systems-chris-hewitt-book-review/
>     <https://louderthanwar.com/the-development-of-large-rock-sound-systems-chris-hewitt-book-review/>
>     > >
>     > >     --
>     > >
>     > >     As an aside off topic, I would love to see a video
>     interview with
>     > >     Bernie Hutchins (or general documentary with people
>     involved) about
>     > >     the genesis and evolution of Electronotes.  Is anybody on
>     the list
>     > >     able to get him on the horn and open up about that?  The
>     number of
>     > >     people that were involved in designing synthesizers when
>     it was the
>     > >     wild west aren't getting any younger and we've already
>     lost some big
>     > >     ones.  Would be good to preserve that history!!
>     > >
>     > >     On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 4:26 PM Kylee Kennedy
>     <kmkennedy at gmail.com <mailto:kmkennedy at gmail.com>
>     > >     <mailto:kmkennedy at gmail.com <mailto:kmkennedy at gmail.com>>>
>     wrote:
>     > >
>     > >         I believe PAIA is now the longest running modular DIY
>     company.
>     > >         That honor used to be for Blacet but I'm still waiting for
>     > >         Synthcube to re-launch his line.
>     > >         Interesting that they are both known for Frac systems.
>     > >
>     > >         Kylee
>     > >
>     > >         On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 11:47 AM David G Dixon
>     <dixon at mail.ubc.ca <mailto:dixon at mail.ubc.ca>
>     > >         <mailto:dixon at mail.ubc.ca <mailto:dixon at mail.ubc.ca>>>
>     wrote:
>     > >
>     > >             Artie wrote: "In particular, PAiA has been doing
>     this for,
>     > >             what, 20 years at
>     > >             least?"
>     > >
>     > >             I bought a PAiA Gnome kit when I was 12 years
>     old.  I'm 56
>     > >             later this month.
>     > >             PAiA had been around for a good long while by that
>     point as
>     > >             well, I think.
>     > >
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