Mutant Hihats
6.30.2014 Mutant Hihats assembly tips v1.10 PG1
hexinverter.net electronics, 2014
eurorack dual hihats DIY assembly tips v1.10 hexinverter.net
This guide should help you on the quest to build yourself a hexinverter Mutant Hihats eurorack module from
a PCB/faceplate set. It is not a full blown step-by-step guide like with hexinverter full kit products and
assumes you have successfully built some easier projects before from full kits (such as Orbitals, Galilean
Moons, etc.)
FINDING PARTS
As with all hexinverter DIY projects, you should NOT blindly trust the Mouser Project Cart provided. It is
meant to save you the pain of searching for every common part on Mouser, but, that doesn’t mean you don’t
still have to go through the BoM line by line and make sure you’ve sourced each part for your build! I promise
you will not be happy if you blindly order the cart, expecting to receive 100% of the components you need for
the build –you cannot acquire all the pieces you need from Mouser alone! So make sure to read the Google
Docs hosted bill of materials for the project. I suggest printing it out and checking each item off line by line
to make sure you’ve accounted for it in your parts orders. I list sources in the BoM when available and even
provide handy comments to help you find parts easier. And if you can’t find something, pop by the
Muffwiggler Music Tech DIY Forum thread for the project and someone (perhaps myself) will help you out
there so others can benefit from the answer to your problem as well.
STEP 1: Board-level components
Note: the render above says v1.09 but the PCBs you have are v1.10 or up –no worries. The only changes I made were
some traces and values, so the renders above still apply in terms of component placement/naming.
Let’s get started! I recommend stuffing all the PCBs with everything except the control surface components
and headers that connect the boards together. Once all the board level stuff (resistors, capacitors, ICs, etc.)
are installed, we’ll do the parts that stick through the panel (pots, switches, jacks, LEDs, etc).
