What's your thoughts on Brian Wampler's new Video Courses?

GAStan said:
Some versions of Spice is free, it's a software app.
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Definitely!
E.g., Analog Devices's LTspice is 100% free and pretty easy to use (the GUI can be a bit painful/awkward at first putting down & connecting the components, but you get used to it pretty quickly). But it's very well documented, and they continue to regularly issuing software updates. .

LTwiki-Wiki for LTspice

ltwiki.org ltwiki.org

I oscillate between breadboarding vs LTspice when futzing around with circuits, using whatever is faster/easier for addressing my question. LTspice is nice because you can get frequency responses and other analytic answers easily (e.g., why is it oscillating, or whatever). Breadboarding is better for when you want to hear the difference.
 
There's a new one out, "How to Design and Build Better Guitar Pedals: For Intermediate DIY’ers". It looks pretty interesting, not going to lie, but $125 (with the discount) for 6 hours feels like a lot? I dunno, I'm still considering it. I guess there is a 30 day money back guarantee if you're unhappy so I could give it a try, I'm not the kind of guy to abuse those but if I feel bad I would go for the refund.

https://www.guitarpedalcourse.com/courses/design-build-guitar-pedals?coupon=30offdiy2 link for anyone interested (the coupon is the 30% off for the first week)
 
Hmm ... do I spend the money on parts, or on edification...

School of hard knocks might stick better, but sssssooooo much sssllllowwwwwerrrrrr...
 
Feral Feline said:
Hmm ... do I spend the money on parts, or on edification...

School of hard knocks might stick better, but sssssooooo much sssllllowwwwwerrrrrr...
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YMMV, and it does feel like a lot of money.

For me, learning some things by independent research and by doing it myself works well. For other things, it doesn't work very well or at all.

Music theory is one of those, for some reason it was very hard for me to learn, or maybe rather to find the motivation to focus enough on learning it. I took a (I guess community college is the closes equivalent) course on it last semester, and it helped a ton. It was much easier for me to learn and actually understand it.

Similarly, looking this kind of stuff feels very intimidating, so I'm hopeful the course will help me jumpstart or catapult me forward a lot. Obviously I still need to put in the work, but it would hopefully feel easier. That is worth money, if it works out like that. It's also easy to buy courses and never watch them. That's why the money back guarantee also sounds good because it gives me an extra kick in the ass of "Go through it in 30 days or you won't get your money back if it sucks".

I'm not trying to sell it for anyone else though, if nothing else maybe you can use it to get motivation out of spite ("Oh look at that idiot, paying so much for that, I bet I can pull it off for free just so I can gloat to them!") or whatever.
 
Feral Feline said:
I was recently looking at compressors when I came across Moritz Klein's build-video.

He has a whole series of vids with Erica Synths producing Eurorac kit versions so you can watch the vid, order the kit and build what you watched begin developed.

The compressor has two parts to it:




The COMPRESSOR BUILD DOC PDF is extensive, getting into a lot of details about how things work, why they work the way they do.


From my personal perspective, I'd like to see WHY a 100k resistor was chosen over a 10k/500k/whatever — but then the vids wouldn't be as compact and they already delve into a lot while remaining succinct.


Highly recommended.
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There are painfully few tutorials on compression online. I'd also add the vaults of https://thatcorp.com/design-notes/

Also Lantertronics on YT does some great higher level engineering discussion.
 
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