Build Your Own Audio Gear: Required Tools

Hey peterson, great haircut! Also love the message. It really doesn't take a lot to have a decent workable shop setup, and to learn the wonderful craft of building your own gear.

I would highly recommend a Panavise or Panavise jr. It makes such a huge difference to my ability and enjoyment of building. First it steadies and elevates the board I am working on so I have many less mistakes and collateral burns. When I used to work on a piece of cardboard this drove me crazy! Second it's also handy for being able to tin wires or work on other things besides PCBs. Like many things worth having it is not cheap. But along with my Weller WES51 it made such a huge difference in my soldering game that I wish I'd bought one decades ago. Jeez I'd probably be designing stuff instead of just building it by now!

Just come across your channel today and loving your content, Peterson (epic name by the way). Loved your video where you salvage a 'crappy' large diaphragm condenser and transform into a U87!???! Please, do let me know what that guitar pedal was that you made too (discussed in this vid)! :)

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Hi Peterson, Why don't you design a stereo limiter, a real one that limits without letting the peaks thru, I like your projects especially the use of thru holes components, keep it like that I don't prefer surface mount components. Use high quality components, one word superb. You could be the next David Hill.(Crane song)