moody07747 said:
i have thought of buying one but if i can save money by building one, why not
plus, i could use the practice in the electronics category :lol:
theres just something about building and completing a project that gives you a giid feeling. every time someone looks at my mixer and amp and ask where did you get that from i can always tell them that i built it myself.
I built a full scale mixer for a band back in the 70's that I did the PA for, it had 10 or 12 channels, bass, middle, treble, pan, input gain, and a slider on each channel, plus switchable PFL and VU meters.
Back then mixers were really expensive, and we saved a LOT by doing it, but at current prices I didn't consider it! - just buying the controls and knobs would cost more than a Behringer mixer :lol:
BTW, again back in the 70's, I found myself with a disco to do - and one of the band members had the mixer!. I designed and built a two channel mixer, from bits I had, in about 20-30 minutes!. This included building it in a small diecast metal box as well, and powering it from a 9V PP3 battery - my younger brother watched me do it, and couldn't believe it worked :lol: Perhaps my resistor calculations put him off?, "I'll have one of those, it's a pretty colour", and "I've got lots of those, throw me some of them" - it's really VERY easy to design a simple mixer - opamps make it childs play.