Creative has some good cards but at that price range you might want to look into some emu's, the 0202 is just a little less than $100 and I'm pretty sure it's a much better card.

Alright guys, thanks, I guess I got the wrong part (>_<) I hope I had an extra pot in my last order from mouser...

Well, I'm trying to use this pot I got from radioshack(http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...rt&tab=summary) and I just can't figure out the pinout of it. I also can't figure out if it's mono, and woulnd't be sutiable to modulate the volume on my amp. If anyone knows the pinout of it, or can...

Well I was about to place an order on Mouser, I'm not in Canada though, I could pick up some extra led's for you if you want.

Quote: Originally Posted by blip First thing to do is to set up your specifications: A) How efficient is the speaker you are using? I don't have a speaker yet, so suggest one. B) How loud do you need it? (Take these two together to figure out the wattage you need) loud. C)...

Yeah, I've been wanting to watch it again for awhile now, but now that school has started I've had almost no time to do anything. One of these days though, I think he still has the set.

Wow there are a lot of anime fans here, and I thought it was a music forum Some of my favorite series: Trigun - It's got a great story line, pretty deep if you ask me. Berserk - Just freaking awesome, so much blood and gore, awesome fight scenes. Dragon Ball Z - okay, flame me now...

You guys all have awesome cases for your builds. Does anyone know what a good case would be for the SOHA? I'm going to build one soon..

sounds good ... hmm more than 50 posts huh? *scurrys off for one more post*

Well I've just gotten in to DIY audio type things, made a cmoy, got a second one in the process(just needs an opamp) for my friend. And I was wondering if there are any good cheap amplifiers that would work with a speaker so I could use it with my guitar. I guess my real question is, what is...

I wish I had money to spare, stupid cars. I want to get a ppas to build, especially after hearing how good it sounds.

PM! woo..

Okay, well I stopped by rat shack today, got some more resitors, I got 470k ohm and 1mill ohm because I wasn't sure if 470k would be close enough to 500k for it to be fine or what. Would using 470k or 1mill be better? Is 1mill too much? I'm going to do that rubbing alcohol thing and see if...

Well the wire fixed the buzzing, but when I'm turning the sound sometimes I will get a slight scratching sound, that is the pot? Or R2? I'll stop by radioshack and get some higher resistors after school today and see if that fixes that.

The buzzing doesn't go away when I touch it, the buzzing starts when I touch it. My in/out jacks are plastic, but I have a ground wire running from the ground to the virtual ground on my board. So get some higher resistors and/or a new pot? I'll try running another ground wire from my...

okay, last problem. I figured out, I messed up when putting the resistors in, I had them one row up on the right side, so I got that, it sounds great, but I get a slight buzzing sound when the pot is slightly above minimum for about an 1/8-1/4 turn then it goes away. It only comes if i'm...

Well I don't know what I did, but I fixed the distortion problem. But I created yet another problem. I get almost no sound out of my right earbud. It's not the phones beucase they work fine with out the amp, and it does the same thing with my other pair. I've replaced a resistor on the board...

Well the schematic, I used pretty much the basic cmoy amp from tangentsoft, I think the only thing I changed one of the capasitors to 470uf instead of the 220 and I used a 2.5k resistor for a gain of 5. I didn't put the R5 in, and I used the opa2132pa opamp. I'll try to get some pictures up...

Okay, I fixed that problem, I realized that I forgot to attach the power to my opamp in my haste. But now I have another problem. There is a hiss in my headphones when they are connected, and they get very loud and distorted when sound is applied. Any ideas?

Okay, well I first had a problem with my power supply section, all the voltage was going to one side, but I got that fixed by cleaning up the soldering point on the back, so now it sounds through both phones, but the sound is really quiet, even with the pot turned all the way up and my player...

Well, I'm attempting my hand at some DIY audio gear, got most of my cmoy done, and I'm trying to get a mini-mini cable, but I had a problem, two of the cords are touching. It's the ground and the right channel I think. Is that okay, or should I desolder it all and do it back again? Also, does...

Well I got a dremel, Craftsman, got it from Sears for 60 bucks(was on sale) It's variable speed and seems pretty nice, couldn't get a better soddering iron becuase of the price, but the soldering iron can wait until my next project I guess. I got some drill bits for it, and I hope that the...

So I can just punch through the metal with a hole punch and widen the hole carefully with a dremel? What if I need a hole smaller than a hole punch? Are there any good cheap drills that would be fine for this type of work?

Well, I've gotten into audio DIY, started building a cmoy, going good so far, but now I need a dremel tool and possibly a drill so that I can make the holes in my tin to put it all together. So I'm looking for cheap, but not so cheap I'll have to buy a new one next week, like 30-50 dollar...

Well I guess this is the best place for my question, I was going to make a mini to mini cable, and thought I'd make a new guitar cable as well, so I got a couple of the connectors, and I got stereo instead of mono. Will I still be able to use them?