a new trick: Electronics
One thing I’ve been putting off for years was learning electronics. Like everything else, I’m not immediately good at it, but I think with persistence I’ll learn the basics and hopefully become competent.
I picked up an Electronics Demystified book about 3 months ago and read the first chapter; I decided to put off reading more until I had a chance to get my 130 in one electronics kit that I got when I was younger. Now that I’ve got the kit, I’ve started reading again- I’m almost halfway through, although the retention rate is about 5%. Once I’m done I’m going to go back through the book and take a lot of notes.
The end goal to all of this is I want to make my own guitar pedals.
in a month or so I plan on picking up a nice bread board and some components and putting together a simple Fuzz pedal. I’ve started collecting interesting simple schematics- finding things that will be easy to make.
Finding good programs for linux has been interesting as well. I found a schema creator called gschem which seems to be the leader of the pack so far- it’s still a bit clunky, but it’s usable. As I make breakthroughs in my studies I’ll post them to the blog.
Tuesday 27 Dec 2005 | Jesse Morgan | Electronics, Guitar, Linux
You can find used pedals at ebay for ~ $20 “buy it now”
http://search.ebay.com/guitar-pedal_W0QQfromZR40QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ3QQsbrsrtZl
Leader of the pack bah.
EAGLE! EAGLE! EAGLE!
Pedro:
I know I can get them on the cheap from Ebay- that’s how I got my American Metal pedal. but it’s an entirely a diferent thing to build your own. once I get the basics down I can attempt tweaking them to get a new sound. it’s doubtful I’ll get anything truely unique, but it’ll be a fun ride.