All this soldering isn't the most terribly fun part of the project -- but it must be done, and it's the reason you can have your own brand new analog synth for less than $1000. Paying someone to put together a board like this would be pretty expensive.
It's the wife's iron, how geeky do you think I am?
Here's the progress after the first night or two of parts stuffing -- just a few diodes and transistors. It helps to have a good soldering iron. Get a small one, and buy it somewhere not affiliated with the Radio Shack family of companies. Oh, and get a lower wattage pencil type iron, you don't want to kill your IC's with too much heat.
Now with 100% added electrolitic capacitors!
This was after I realized that I had replaced the 1% resistors with 5% resistors, and had to remove them... Oh well, live and learn.
I'm very lucky to be married to a woman who keeps solder wick in the house.
Had to wait for the order from Digikey to come in so that I could put in the IC's. And naturally I missed a couple off of the parts list (to my credit, one was listed separately from the rest of the IC's... not my fault)
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