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Post by Disco Nutter » Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:12 am

Anybody working with any kind of DIY hardware (and stuff you know)? It's a pretty interesting topic.

As most of you probably know monitor placement is of great importance, but so is the thing you put them on.
I'm currently thinking of getting myself some materials to make monitor stands (these ones look pretty neat).

Here are some other DIY monitor stands to check out: Yesterday I made myself a homemade pop-filter (here's how one looks though mine is a bit crappier because my microphone stand is awkwardly engineered). If anybody's interested in the DIY pop-filter I can post the pictures to how it's made. All you need is wire, hose and this (if somebody can tell me what its name is in English i'd be grateful :) we call it a cable shoe here).



I was also going through some books a month ago, and "Electronic Projects for Musicians" by Craig Anderton looked like a pretty neat book. Pretty cool projects (preamp, compressor/limiter, ring modulator, phase shifter, talk box, 8 in 1 out mixer, headphone amp, footswich and so on). I read through some of the projects, the author kept insisting on the fact that people who have never even soldered could make most of them. I highly doubt that because reading through schematics is somewhat hard, but he explains most of the used symbols (if not all of them). There was also a guide to soldering, making boards and so on and on. There are of course advanced projects in the book.



I found another interesting thing to do with those binder clips laying around - especially if you're annoyed by cables falling behind your desk when you unplug them.
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Post by spencertron » Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:36 am

i paid £400 for only 1 second hand monitor stand...it's called a JCM900 :lol:
(I seriously need speaker stands)

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Nice work by the way, pop filters are very cheap to buy though.
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Post by Disco Nutter » Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:40 am

Is that a foot mixer there :)

lol

Pop-filters down here seem way over-priced for what they do.

That picture is a classic by the way :wink:

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Post by spencertron » Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:58 am

Johnny Beat wrote:Is that a foot mixer there :)

lol

Pop-filters down here seem way over-priced for what they do.

That picture is a classic by the way :wink:
yep, my mixer gets the footsie treament. tbh it rarely gets used.

this is where i got mine http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?Mod ... 6&doy=31m7
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Post by darkmatter » Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:20 pm

I built a 'stepped horn' designed by a guy called Walt on www.speakerstore.nl. Goes very loud and very low, perfect for bedroom or movies.

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you can't see the bottom in this pic:

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but it looks like this inside:

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http://www.speakerstore.nl/index.php?pg=11&c=61

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Post by matthew_ » Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:01 pm

Being an amateur electronics guy, I can say that most of craig andertons projects are easy to build, however, once you've built them you'll probably find you've done something wrong, and wont know what the hell it is, figuring it out is the hard bit.

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Post by Disco Nutter » Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:26 pm

That sub looks like a killer one. How much did it cost you?

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Post by darkmatter » Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:36 pm

the driver (Ciare 12SW) is £100 new or a bit cheaper second hand and the mdf cost about £40 i think. but then you've gotta buy crossover, amp, cables connectors and that so its not that cheap unfortunately

you hear stuff in tunes you never realized was there though :D

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Post by serox » Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:48 pm

big plans up on speakers plans :)
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Post by nospin » Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:41 pm

Johnny Beat wrote:Anybody working with any kind of DIY hardware (and stuff you know)? It's a pretty interesting topic.
i'm kind of playing with DIY software at the moment. that can get real interesting.
i thought about trying to build some preamps and compressors a while ago, as you can get close to the result of much more expensive gear, for cheaper.

but i dont even have the money to really get started on any of that. DIY software is free!

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Post by djake » Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:48 pm

ive been meaning to build a sub for ages, still aint got round to it.

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