[sdiy] Becoming better at understanding difficult analog schematics

[Pete Hartman]

On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 6:45 PM Paulo Constantino via Synth-diy <
synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:

>  can you yourself understand these "non-linear" schematics by just looking
> at them if you have not seen that type of circuit before?
>

You poke at a key item here.  Many many synth schematics have subcircuits
which are the same "type of circuit" (e.g. I can pretty easily recognize an
expo converter).  This comes from having seen the circuit before, though.
When I see a novel circuit block I have to fall back to basic principles or
simulation to see how it behaves.  Experience helps with these as well.
The only way to get that experience is to "just do it".  Most of my synth
circuit experience has been in the course of building DIY stuff and then
troubleshooting it, or buying/getting broken synths and trying to fix them.

There are some excellent lectures by Dr Aaron Lanterman on youtube that
cover a lot of the common "well known" subcircuits, those have been hugely
helpful for me, even re-watching I will find something I had missed
previously.

Pete
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