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Looks good rosch! I will watch this build with great interest :) I´m very interested to see your case. It´s so much fun thinking about possible cases. Nowdays I can go into a boring second hand shop and find lots of interesting synthcases! I´m also very tempted to go stepC instead of stepA but the amount of wiring scares me....maybe if I succed making the bankstick module and the opt.64PSU I will get the curage needed ;)

thanks for feedback! I think you are right about some of the pads didn´t get hot enough. I tried to be fast due to my fear of adding too much heat and probably ended up with too cold pads. Soldered a Din today when the children slept and tried to apply some more heat to the pads. I think I did better but still one or two "round ones". Smash Tv is the greatest btw! Had my laptop next to me and just followed the info for the module on his site. Makes it so much easier for a newbie :) Here´s also a pic of the case I´ll probably use. 2x20 LCD and 10x10mm switches with green leds in them Don´t know how to hook the switchleds up though so any suggestions are very welcome! Been thinking of connecting them to "power on" so all 10 lights up when it´s on (yes one will only be for looks ;)) Or maybe some random light from a dout? I don´t really know what´s possible here....but I liked the looks and feel of them.

I´m a complete newbie at electronics but stumbled upon the midibox sid surfing the net. Used to own a Elektron Sidstation which I loved and have missed ever since (but way too expensive these days..). The midibox Sid seems even much better and I´ve always wanted to learn some electronics and soldering so...here I am;-) I think it will be a loooong journey before I have a working sid but this is my Mt Everest or something :D Been here daily reading for more then a month now (this forum is incredible! And many many thanks to TK, Wilba and all others) and yesterday the package from Smash arrived!! I really recomend Smash btw. It took me quite some time to open the package and get to the parts (very very very well packaged!) and the parts look great! I have now gathered parts for a mono sid 6581 with step A CS and for a 4 track MB6582 with 2 stereo 6582, 1 mono 6582 and 1 mono 6581. The MB6582 will have a Doug Wellington case/panel and for the mono I found an old wallwatch (?) from the 60´s with woodpanels and some alu. My plan is training my soldering step by step beginning with a dout (for future expansion maybe), then a din and so on. This is more of a 5-yearplan since I´m home with 2 kids (oldest is 2,5 year). Soldered the dout while they were asleep for an hour today;-) I´m very excited to start this project but time is my worst enemy... The dout was my first solder except for a a simple 3 channel mixer and an Atari punk console (which was a pain to solder..) which I bought mostly for soldertraing. I´d love some feedback on the soldering. I know some is more like a ball then cone (to much solder or to much corrosion?) and some has to little solder and don´t fill out the solderpad. But how bad is it? This is the dout in all it´s glory

I haven´t found a good place in sweden for panels either so I added an order for Dougs panels which will likely be cheap and great. Otherwise you could always order at http://www.schaeffer-apparatebau.de/ Not exactly cheap but seems really great quality! I´m a complete noob at this but has read ALOT last months and ordered parts for a MB6582 and one mono 6581 with CS stepA. I used to own a sidstation and loved it and these babies seems even much better!! + I really like the DIY (thanks TK :) and Wilba :)) It actually seems easier to build a MB6582 if you never done these kind of things before but I will practice my soldering and electronic skils with the modules first (have soldered a 3 ch mixer and a atari punk attack to practice so far..) Great to see other swedes here also! Vi kanske hörs afterclap ;)