Muff's Modules & More

emdot_ambient · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 9:43 am Post subject:

Oh, and yeah...definitely attractive prices. I think I'll get the noise/S&H and maybe one or two others for use behind a 19" wide full panel I'm working on. You can hardly compete with prices like that even with DIY.

I've never been a fan of their graphics, though. Nor of the Frac system.

Fnord · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:20 pm Post subject:

Just got an email that my order shipped today. Holy crap that was fast.

D/A A/D · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:01 am Post subject:

Just ordered a mixer, dual vca and balanced modulator (as well as a distro board from AI)!

nanners

glacial23 · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:19 am Post subject:

My kits arrived just a few minutes ago!

Once I get a few together, I'll post some pictures.

D/A A/D · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:03 pm Post subject:

gde · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:55 pm Post subject:

gnombient · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:03 pm Post subject:

Fnord · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:33 pm Post subject:

I'm so tempted to fill a frac rack with just mixers and vca's and not ever have to worry about them again.

D/A A/D · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:49 pm Post subject:

glacial23 · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:28 am Post subject:

Of the six that I bought, I finished five of them last night, between 7:00pm and 9:30pm. They're very easy to build - usually no more than a dozen parts to solder(jacks & pots, maybe a couple of other components), because it's mostly pre-soldered surface mount.

Here's what you get in the Noise Source kit:

All of the kits are pretty similar to this, and they're all approximately the same size PCB, for those curious about module depth and whatnot.

Here is the finished module:

werock · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 3:10 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the photos!

Is the power header one of the parts that you solder yourself?

gde · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 3:25 pm Post subject:

glacial23 · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 6:30 pm Post subject:

DGTom · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 9:45 pm Post subject:

thanks glacial23, just as I thought these should be really easy to banana up. I was hoping the jacks came unattached to the boards, which looks like the case w00t

With the noise gen. the site says it can be reconfigured to use a Zener instead of a transistor for the noise, which one did you go for?

glacial23 · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:07 pm Post subject:

DGTom · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:52 pm Post subject:

Cool, Noise Module Chance Operations.... very Zen... or something hmmm.....

lombrose · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 11:25 pm Post subject:

Cool

Cat-A-Tonic · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 3:07 am Post subject:

The description of the noise module on the PAiA site gave me the impression
that the transistor was always used, and that the zener diode was optional.
I could be wrong though.

In either case, it would be cool to put a switch on the front panel to bypass the zener diode for a different noise flavor.

BugBrand · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:46 am Post subject:

Thanks for the pics!

And echoing what DGTom said about looking good for bananafication.
(note that some other modules are likely to have some normalisation - but we know that adding switches often improves things anyway!)

Do they come with schematics? Particularly interesting to see if any changes are need really to run off 'standard' frac +/-15v rather than the Paia choice of local +/-12v regulation (you can see the 3812 and 3912 on the PCBs - you can probably remove or short these out for running direct off 15v supplies)