Build A DIY Case And Power Supply For A Modular Synth CHEAP

so this is the first proper video in the new place so let's get stuck in so this is the first episode of a little thing that I'm doing I'm basically going to film things from scratch we're gonna start from the bomb which is actually the case then you put synth modules in I need to put some new ones because I need to slightly larger ones to take on tour so this is a video about making a synthesizer case for my kind of dimensions which is actually 20 centimeter high panels which doesn't really fit within the free you or the five you you know like mo or your a rack or things like that but there's no reason why you can't adjust the measurements and make it work for those I'm doing these ones 120 centimeters wide that's like over a me they're going to be pretty big and they're going to be 40 sending me it's tall which means they fit to 20 centimeter panels on top of each other so I cut these vincible down using a circular saw but usually I go to an offcut place with their little piece of paper saying if you've got any bits of wood this size and they usually came to size for me for free so basically ways it's four bits of 18 millimeter wide plywood that's for the actual outside box and for the back you've got a nine millimeter piece of plywood it's a slightly thinner so it's a little bit lighter for when you're kind of lugging it around the world you know maybe not in aeroplanes maybe it's a bit too big but you never know basically it's gonna look like this we've got a board on the top yeah no but we've got a board on the side got board on the other side and we gotta forward on the bottom and then their support [Music] that's gonna go up these middle ones are going to be 40 centimeters high by when he said the mean is wide these top ones need to take into account the width of these middle ones so they're gonna have to be 2 centimeters on each side wider to make sure that the 18 millimeter ply fits in there and you've got like 2 millimeters and played inside the box it's good to be safe so this one for me is going to be a hundred 24 centimeters wide by 20 centimeters so the 20 centimeters is so the whole case is 20 centimeters deep and then the back you want it to be to take into account of the whole back part so you're taken into the cow of the width of these now it's gonna be 44 centimeters by 1 to 4 centimeters suppose are the different dimensions that you're gonna need for this I'm gonna bash these together this little point them looking pretty with fancy joints and stuff because in the end of the day this is at all the tools are made to be used not to look pretty even though they do look pretty in there kind of brutal like kind of way so the first thing I'm gonna do it's get screwdriver with a little drill bit which is going to make pilot holes and I'm going to put pilot holes on the top of these planks no need for measurements because measurements we all know for crazy people and mathematician [Music] twist it around please hear that now you're ready to about the science you've got questions for you they don't need to match there we go those in do get their PVA glue right on there doesn't matter if it's too much because who cares really side panels in [Music] around did you get the other sides come on dude [Music] the funny thing is this back piece I only had a bit of plywood that was about a centimeter too short so you know it's gonna be a little bit short on the back whatever scrap they're clear on they're gonna bother drilling pilot holes one more little thing to do before we actually put the rose in is to find a space to put the power input so I'm gonna drill a hole to put a jack socket there will do [Music] there we go now it's not like the Rose I'm going with wooden rails because why would you not because it just costs nearly nothing so the middle one is about 1.5 centimeters wide which means you can mount two modules on top of each other on it and the thinner ones are for the bottoms and the tops and basically what these are about just over a centimeter so you just screw screws into it that hold your modular in place so this is probably the most complicated part of it all basically what we got we've got a mallet for and this is probably the only measurements that we're ever going to have to do is having it 7 centimeters in working out where to do all of us from the outside so we can plot it [Music] the next step is my favorite step which is the painting and the reason it being my favorite is because it kind of covers up all of the mistakes [Music] yeah stick you're pretty good but what's better than one - there we go whoo what's better than to free going boom - now we've got what the power supply the power supply is a little bit different to your normal 9-volt battery thing that you plug into the wall that you usually plug I've learnt musical electrical things into so these require a plus 12 volts minus 12 volts and the ground the ground in the middle is a center tap between the two and if you lick that it doesn't hurt but if you make the top of the bottom ones you definitely feel a tingle so how do we put a power supply into this well there's many ways to do it there's lots of different companies that make already made power supplies from the farc oh who are these long thin power suppliers but how I'm going to do it is the way I always do it which is using this frequency Central FC power DIY PCB basically way is is this takes an AC current you know the up and down and it splits it so you've got a positive and a negative 12 volts the ground in the middle see yeah let's solder one of these up sorry for the messy fingers but there's been a lot of painting and cutting today all of this information is on the frequency central website but you know just to show you how easy it is you know there's just not much going on [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] and then I've built some more okay I've got five but I've only got three cases but two of the cases have two rows and one of them has one row so that's five rows in total and my kind of rule of thumb is I have one per row so the great thing is you can hook these up to the same power plugs so the two wires coming from the power plugs can be sold it to both of them in parallel okay so we've got two and they're connected to the same jack which is going to be the power socket as I said it's not the best choice for plugging power into but it kind of kind of it just makes this stay in there so it doesn't get pulled out accidentally when you're playing the show which is what I like I've also made these very simple kind of like bust boards and what these do is they take the power and distribute it across to all the modules always is a long thin piece of strip board and some pin headers and that just goes like this to the end of that there we go [Music] well at least it works now I've got transplant all of the synthesizer modules I've got my old touring synth into here and then build on it more so I've got more stuff to take with me so I hope that was of help there's links in the description of most of the things that I've been talking about this is the start of a little series that I'm working on that I'm going to start building modules in videos so I guess the next one is going to be the base level module which is an oscillator I guess so hopefully in a month or so you'll be seeing the next episode of this series and it should be oscillator I still haven't fully sorted out the reverb in this room so I'm sorry if it sounds like it's a massive cavernous concrete room well that's because it is these free cases cost me and maybe about a hundred quid to make but remember that's a massive case so a hundred quid sounds pretty cheap when you think of how big it is and yeah thanks don't forget to check out the patreon there's a livestream coming up within the week and there's a few giveaways happening in a couple of weeks as well and yeah I kind of updated pretty much everyday because I'm working on a couple of quite expensive projects at the minute and yeah they're quite interesting and there's some information over on the patreon on those already but you might not see them for a little while because they're costing a pretty penny so if you want to support even just a little bit even a quid that would help out along with these projects that are coming up because they're pretty big I've been at my my computer don't forget subscribers [Music] you

Channel: LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER

Views: 158,359

Keywords: DIY, woodwork, electronics, eurorack, synthesiser, music, electro, look mum no computer, ben heck, moog, modular synth, science, dewalt, daft punk, andrew huang, sonicstate, befaco, frequency central, synth diy, plywood, sam, zibra, sam battle, skeletons, soldering, screws, painting

Id: 4T6J-K8_yk4

Length: 10min 47sec (647 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 20 2018