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03-18-2010, 07:17 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | DIY kit suggestions?
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Who makes a kit that a novice can complete? COMPLETE novice.
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03-18-2010, 07:29 AM
| | | | All kits have a similar difficulty. If you can solder a few components than you can also solder a lot of components and the assembly is the same for almost every kit. It could help to get one with a small pcb so you have enough room in the enclosure to work with and the more components the bigger the risk you do something wrong. You could just look at GGG or BYOC and see what effect you would like to build. Gain pedals are usually the simplest circuits so that would be a good start (maybe a dod 250 clone). |
03-18-2010, 07:31 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Princeton New Jersey | | | Define novice. Can you solder? |
03-18-2010, 07:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | My soldering looks like Impressionist Art. |
03-18-2010, 07:43 AM
| | | | BYOC gives you a confidence booster (a small boost circuit to practice on) so that could help. I would Also search for some tutorials on soldering, once you know how it works it's very doable. |
03-18-2010, 07:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Princeton New Jersey | | | Yes, learn soldering. It's not that hard and opens up a load of possibilities for working on your own basses. |
03-18-2010, 07:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Colorado Springs, CO | | | This would rule out a "kit". You would be ordering a completed body with everything already installed, then the neck, tuners, neck plate, string retainer (if needed) seperately. IMO, this wouldn't make for much of a kit.
I think you should make sure you have the correct solder tips for electronics and have at it. Practice makes perfect as they say. The good news is, you can always fix up a soldering job, but you'll never get anywhere if you don't try.
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03-18-2010, 07:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Princeton New Jersey | | | Go to Radio Shack or someplace similar and get a cheap kit to practice with. |
03-18-2010, 11:05 AM
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Originally Posted by JoeVictim  This would rule out a "kit". You would be ordering a completed body with everything already installed, then the neck, tuners, neck plate, string retainer (if needed) seperately. IMO, this wouldn't make for much of a kit.
I think you should make sure you have the correct solder tips for electronics and have at it. Practice makes perfect as they say. The good news is, you can always fix up a soldering job, but you'll never get anywhere if you don't try. | This is the effects forum. 
Practice soldering on anything you can get your hands on on then I'd recommend a GGG or BYOC kit. Whichever takes your fancy really. |
03-18-2010, 11:33 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Burnaby, BC, Canada | | | I would definitely recommend starting with a GGG kit. That's how I learned how to build pedals. JD is a good guy who helps if something goes wrong. The kits are also reasonably price, IMHO. I'm actually thinking of ordering a Orange Squeezer. |
03-18-2010, 01:27 PM
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Builder for FUZZROCIOUS PEDALS | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Mount Laurel, NJ | | | I think JoeVictim just clicked on from the main page...totally off-base.
Don't get a GGG BMP as your first kit. Not easy to troubleshoot and the traces/pads are close together in many places. I second/third the BYOC w/ a Confidence Booster as a first build. |
03-18-2010, 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by rratajski Don't get a GGG BMP as your first kit. Not easy to troubleshoot and the traces/pads are close together in many places. I second/third the BYOC w/ a Confidence Booster as a first build. | Yeah, I should have mentioned that if you go the GGG route start with a LPB-1 or DOD250 kit. Then you can work your way up to my last two builds....a GGG Brassmaster and Viva Analog 360+ Acoustic preamp! Both hard builds, IMHO. |
03-18-2010, 01:39 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Rhode Island, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by rratajski I think JoeVictim just clicked on from the main page...totally off-base.
Don't get a GGG BMP as your first kit. Not easy to troubleshoot and the traces/pads are close together in many places. I second/third the BYOC w/ a Confidence Booster as a first build. | My first build was a BYOC envelope filter, which has a simple circuit that is not too much more complex than a dirt pedal. By the time I had built the confidence booster, I felt completely comfortable doing the filter. |
03-18-2010, 05:38 PM
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03-18-2010, 06:13 PM
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03-20-2010, 10:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Colorado Springs, CO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by rratajski I think JoeVictim just clicked on from the main page...totally off-base.
Don't get a GGG BMP as your first kit. Not easy to troubleshoot and the traces/pads are close together in many places. I second/third the BYOC w/ a Confidence Booster as a first build. | Ding! Ding! Ding!
Yeah, really messed that one up...  
But seriously, there is only way to get better at soldering. Practice.
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