[sdiy] DIY mixer/console

[Tom Wiltshire]

Gagh! Brave man! That sounds like a mighty project.

The *first* thing I would do if I even considered taking on such a task would be to design a nice channel strip PCB with all the pots down one edge so that I had zero wiring to do!

Tom

> On 1 Dec 2021, at 12:01, rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk wrote:
> 
> When I was younger and just getting into electronic music I designed and built my own 24-channel mixer with stereo outputs, 4 channel EQ on each channel, mic pre-amps, insertion points, pre- and post-fade FX sends, aux/tape returns, mute/solo switching etc.  I naively thought it would be cheap to do!  It was a pain making the enclosure (from wood!), took ages to solder up all the electronics (mostly on veroboard with lots of flying leads to the pots and switches!!!), and ended up being waaaaaay more expensive than I had imagined.
> 
> It also picked up numerous European Short-Wave radio stations at night, buzzed every time the heating switched on or off, and always had at least 2 channels with intermittent faults due to poor soldering at any one time!
> 
> It looked pretty cool, and I was happy from an achievement point of view (was easily satisfied in those days ;-))  but I was forever opening it up to fix stuff, and definitely wouldn't embark on anything like that again!
> 
> -Richie,
> 
> 
> 
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> On 2021-11-30 17:43, ColinMuirDorward via Synth-diy wrote:
>> Who here has done or tried it?
>> Please feel free to share pictures, stories, warnings, etc :)
>> Cheers,
>> Colin
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