Why DIY? (was Re: [sdiy] Another new hard to find part....)

[R. D. Davis]

Quothe Ken Stone, from writings of Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 07:41:28PM +1000:
> 1) To some people, the journey is more important than the destination.
>
> 2) If we all bow to the great commercial gods and buy their products, we
> will all sound the same.
[...]

Well said!  It's the good fight of individuality against mind-numbed
conformity.

> I have been pondering why people bother with expensive analog effects when
> there are these DSP things tha come with over 100 different effects in them,
> so I bought myself a couple of them. Now I KNOW why people still want these
> expensive old analog things.

...because they don't sound cheap and cheesy, they're more solid, more
easily repairable (in most cases... and when parts can't be found, a
hack can usually be made so that something else can be substituted),
and there's something far more satisfying about knobs and switches,
and patch cords, than a boring modern digital synth with an LCD
display.  Ok, I'll admit that I do use some digital synthesis, such as
C-sound, but that's just not the same as heating up the soldering
iron, firing up an old Tektronix 'scope and building a circuit.  

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