Sir G's Modular

The Sir G modular has taken about 4 months to reach its now near complete state, here are a series of photos documenting the construction. It's been a long, fairly hard and fairly costly process. But I'm glad to have done it. I figure it's cost me about a third to half as much as commercial unit with the bonus that I was able to customise the design to my own specs.

Stage 1, building and bug testing. LFOs took a while to get working, surprising considering they were one of the most basic of the circuits.

Stage 2 mounting and drilling. Having got all the circuits built and working the next stage was mounting. Drilling the front panel was easy it was the mounting of all the pots that was 'wrong'.

Stage 3 : Sawing all the ends off the pots was a bit wretched too. There are 44 in all.

Stage 4 : Joy. This stage was kind of quite bad because I now had to make the front panel lettering, so that meant removing everything from the front panel.........et voilà :-

Stage 5 : I resprayed the panel white, I prefer the look of white on synths. For the Front panel writing I used Lazertran paper, which would have worked quite well, had it not been for the fact that somehow my drilling sheet measurements ended up being slightly different from the artwork for the front panel. Finally though I am quite pleased with the result.

Stage 6 : Final bug testing and tweaking, now just to find some nice knobs, I'd like to find some nice thin metal ones, the black ones look a bit crap I reckon. ahhhh finished......nearly.

List of Modules in the "Sir G Modular" :

~ 2 VCOs - with Saw, Tri, Sin, Square
~ 2 Mixers
~ 1 Diode ladder multimode filter
~ 1 Moog style lowpass filter
~ 1 VCA
~ 2 Envelopes
~ 1 LFO Tri / Square
~ 2 CV/Audio Splitters, 3 way