Feb 15, 2007 05:59 pm I haven't yet but I am going to pick up one of these. Just not sure which one yet.
www.buildyourownclone.com/
Does anyone here make gear?
Posted on Feb 15, 2007 04:22 pm
Loki
Cone Poker
Member Since: Apr 07, 2002
If so I have a secret project... without saying much, anyone here make their own Mic Pre, compressor, Reverb unit, Distortion Unit, or EQ?
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Feb 15, 2007 05:59 pm I haven't yet but I am going to pick up one of these. Just not sure which one yet.
www.buildyourownclone.com/
Feb 15, 2007 06:16 pm I make mostly guitar effects. Distortion boxes, compressors, and delays. I dunno what you're trying to do, but im SURE you can get LOTS of help here:
www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/
Feb 15, 2007 06:26 pm what I am getting at is I am in the design phase of a new unit, which if it comes out decent, will not only be funny as hell but may actually genurate an income... so I am looking for people to get involved with it. PM me for more details.
Feb 15, 2007 11:50 pm I put together a prototype ribbon mic... I didn't have a stepup transformer laying around so I never finished...painfully easy to build...once you got the extremely powerful magnet that took a week to find unstuck from the nearby metal filing cabnet...
Feb 16, 2007 07:10 am I'm about to order parts for a tube preamp I'm building.
Feb 16, 2007 12:09 pm dude, chronicle that in a step by step process with all the parts you used, where you got them, take pictures and stuf, and post it as an article.
Feb 16, 2007 12:36 pm er, ok. Then you can all see my constant mistakes =).
I'll get my poop in a pile, and start writing in my blog.
I'm still trying to finish my studio (working on it this weekend) so it will be hit and miss while I work on both.
I'll try to get something together in my blog this weekend.
Feb 16, 2007 02:25 pm okey... next thing, send me the finished product for testing... lol
Feb 16, 2007 03:11 pm hee, i hope you can wait awhile =). So far, I've got my schem, and a list of parts.
The fun part is now squeezing the money out for the input transformer, and the power transformer, and the choke =/.
Oh yeah, and the e-caps. Those aren't cheap either.
I guess if it were easy, everyone would do it =).
Feb 17, 2007 12:37 am My construction expertise is more like microphone pop filters built from embroidery hoops, nylons & battery clamps. And I have a degree in electronics.
And I am soooooooo proud.
Feb 17, 2007 02:06 am Hey pjk You had better post lots of DETAILED info on the pre amp as I want to know what not to do efore i have a go LOL
Herb - I hope you didn't use the nylons together with the battery clamps before in other circumstances ;}
Feb 17, 2007 02:37 am Kaos - I did, and managed to pull it off, thanks to my knowledge of Ohm's Law.
Feb 17, 2007 06:48 am Our bass player is really good at making stuff,he built a recording studio with band room, drum booth, control room and accommodation,flight cases,pa cabs/monitors.This is very handy cause he does festival rigs and the rest of his time playing bass.He's just made some folded horn bass cabs with 18's like the cerwin vega cabs,but not just one pair,these days he makes enough to cover costs and some of his living expenses.For this way of life you need to be good at self motivation.
Feb 17, 2007 06:58 am That could have been painful if there was too much resistance!
Feb 17, 2007 07:05 am I've made a lot of stuff, but nothing like you are describing. I've modified a pedal or two, I have made a lot of speakers, I've made gear racks, an awesome studio desk, sound control boards and like stuff...
Feb 17, 2007 07:20 am I must get round to sending some piccys,it will interest peeps on here.
Feb 17, 2007 08:12 am Yeah, I'd love to see some of his stuff. I have made my own monitor systems (twice) a couple hipacks and a couple bins myself, but never for that large of systems, just for small band/bar/club use. The systems I have made have worked in medium sized clubs and sounded pretty darn good though. Plus it's kinda fun and interesting. I don't have any of it any more. I gave them or sold them to friends or other bands.
Noize2u's oldest son has a lighting system I made while I was machining during the day and gigging at night. It was actually a very cool system...toggles for each light color and total blackout, bright colored lights plus option personal spots for each band member. All of it on a truss that bolted to the side of the hipacks and spread overhead, front stage, if I recall fully setup it spread about an 18' stage of so. I made it it's own travel case and everything. It would all break down (quickly) and fit into a 4' x 2' x 1' wooden travel crate.
Feb 17, 2007 08:33 pm Yep, and it still gets used. They have some big parties, as most of us did at that age. And they use the lights often. And ya, it was a pretty big rig assembled. They had to get permission from the landlord to hang it up.
Feb 18, 2007 07:32 am Sounds like a very handy lighting set up and the link onto the pa is a good idea.I took some piccy's at last nights gig of a small pa we used and some mon's are on them, but I'm going to Scotland till Saturday on a whiskey mid week bender :)near to Loch Ness.Yes I will keep a look out for the Monster!(and CoCo)then sort out some DIY pa pics later next week.
Feb 18, 2007 09:37 am Good to know it still get used, I put a lot of thought and time into building it, it's not the typical 2x4 and coffee can light rig. It's actual metal trusses with bent metal light brackets and coffee can lights :-)
Yeah, the fact it bolted to the sides of the hipacks we had was great at the time, it saved LAODS of stage space since we didn't need the extra room to the tripods and crap that normally are needed for such systems. All the light toggles and stuff I just controlled with my foot like any other footpedal so it was cool, and worked great for small or medium sized clubs.
Feb 19, 2007 08:49 pm Speaking of Charlie, Ben just emailed me that he met Charlies mom (Jackie) when they played in Hopkins this last weekend. She walks up apperantly a bit trashed and stated she had a picture of her son and his father (being me of course) and I was wearing a Rockfist T-Shirt. Nice chuckle I got from that.
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