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chris.knudson said:
@jessenator -- That does seem a little ambitious for a first build -- kudos for even trying.
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I have a knack of barreling into things :| it's like wanting to learn how to paint, but I insist on using rocks and axle grease

jimilee said:
Jesus Christ! Is that an early dead astronaut board. I have an etched abductor delay before he started having boards fabbed.
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This was a board design by the late, great Jurgen Haible (the guy put the Yamaha CS polysynths ON VERO?!?!?1!). I was a synth nut back then, and loved everything ARP. He extracted the 14-stage phase shift circuit from the ARP Quadra synthesizer, and common sense went out the window like the day you laid eyes on your first crush in a two-piece.
 
My first build was the angry andy plus. I built it in a 1590BB2 because I thought more space will be better and I'll get to move some pots around and add a battery connector.
Then reality hit me hard. I did not plan my drilling so well, so goodbye battery space. Then it was hard to box, only to find out that thing would either not work or go into crazy feedback noise. After replacing the IC and having it working, I just got rid of it.
I'm not sure how I did not got discouraged by the experiment.

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And I still order those huge 220n almost every time ...
 
jessenator said:
This was a board design by the late, great Jurgen Haible (the guy put the Yamaha CS polysynths ON VERO?!?!?1!). I was a synth nut back then, and loved everything ARP. He extracted the 14-stage phase shift circuit from the ARP Quadra synthesizer, and common sense went out the window like the day you laid eyes on your first crush in a two-piece.
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Wow, way cool! I was a factory tech at ARP just before the Quadra was released, it was a pretty wild place to work at that time. For me the highlight was probably building two 2500 wing panels, which only two people there even actually knew how to do IIRC.
 
Nic said:
My first build was the angry andy plus. I built it in a 1590BB2 because I thought more space will be better and I'll get to move some pots around and add a battery connector.
Then reality hit me hard. I did not plan my drilling so well, so goodbye battery space. Then it was hard to box, only to find out that thing would either not work or go into crazy feedback noise. After replacing the IC and having it working, I just got rid of it.
I'm not sure how I did not got discouraged by the experiment.

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And I still order those huge 220n almost every time ...
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this is actually fucken excellent, first build or not.
 
owlexifry said:
geez.. when everyone's 'first builds' are shitting bricks on some of my 'best', i think ill pass. build reports are embarrassing enough :ROFLMAO:
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At least these dudes' first pedals look like actual pedals.

My first distortion pedal was in an ABS plastic enclosure from Radio Shack with copper tape for shielding and a piece of styrofoam to raise the vero board off the copper-taped bottom. It didn't even have a footswitch or DC jack—just a toggle switch for "on" and a 9v battery. And I was impressed that it passed a signal. :ROFLMAO:
 
Passinwind said:
Wow, way cool! I was a factory tech at ARP just before the Quadra was released, it was a pretty wild place to work at that time. For me the highlight was probably building two 2500 wing panels, which only two people there even actually knew how to do IIRC.
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Love t stories like that. So cool! After getting immersed in the synth world maybe 20 years ago, I really changed my inner fanboy from Moog to ARP. The 2500 was nuts! At least from the outside (all I ever saw then) with their built in matrix connectivity.

Actually owned a between era Mk II Odyssey (black panel, but still had a knob pitch bend) for a time. Never did find an affordable 2600. Maybe I'll scrounge up enough before Behringer discontinues their clone.
 
jessenator said:
Love t stories like that. So cool! After getting immersed in the synth world maybe 20 years ago, I really changed my inner fanboy from Moog to ARP. The 2500 was nuts! At least from the outside (all I ever saw then) with their built in matrix connectivity.

Actually owned a between era Mk II Odyssey (black panel, but still had a knob pitch bend) for a time. Never did find an affordable 2600. Maybe I'll scrounge up enough before Behringer discontinues their clone.
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The engineer who played the 2500 in Close Encounters was one of the two people I mentioned and he coached me and the other tech through the build process. Just after that I ported out of assembly to a QC test tech job, and when I arrived for my first day on that line there was a camera crew setting up right in front of my work station. It was some Boston community access cable station, doing a fluff piece on ARP and the link to the movie. So somewhere there's a video of me with headphones on going doink doink doink, probably calibrating an Odyssey. :cool:
 
Wish I wouldn’t have tossed all the etched ones I did in the 90s with everything purchased from Radio Shack. I do still have the resistors and a handful of knobs from back then.

But here’s my first one when I got back into it last year- a TS and Delay from BYOC

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My first pedal was a BYOC Tremolo for my brother-in-law a couple years ago. My kids painted the enclosure.

First pedal for myself was a Si Tonebender on vero a couple of months later. The fuzzy mustache hides a messed up LED hole drill, but became the inspiration for the googly eyes. The wiring is total spaghetti. Haven't tried a vero build since...
 

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This was my first (I think) working build circa 2021. The KOT was actually the reason I got into this hobby because I didn't want to wait for one or pay for one 2nd hand. As I recall it sounds fine but it's noisy and maybe a bit shrill. Fake germanium diodes. Flux residue you can smell through the screen. Various melted items... I guess not much has changed...

My very first build was a blues breaker and it still sits in my box of shame.
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Passinwind said:
Wow, way cool! I was a factory tech at ARP just before the Quadra was released, it was a pretty wild place to work at that time. For me the highlight was probably building two 2500 wing panels, which only two people there even actually knew how to do IIRC.
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That's so cool. I just watched a Reverb documentary on ARP on youtube. Good watch. I emailed my sweetwater rep after I watched this to see about acquiring a Korg reissue of the ARP 2600 hahaha only mildy serious about buying one unless they give me screamin deal.
 
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