Dirt & Grit Colour Kit Bundle

Worked first time

Yesterday I powered up the dirt and grit 500 palette and gave it a quick test. It seems to work and offered 3 useful types of saturation. Thanks! There were a few unwelcome surprises in building this kit. First I found that my eyesight is not good enough to solder this. I had to buy a set of hobby glasses to wear over my glasses. Then it was ok. Another was that the colourrupter requires calibration and the 500 series extender cable is necessary. If I had known this I would have brought it with the kit. Shipping to New Zealand is expensive and buying the extender cable afterwards would mean weeks of delay. The total current consumption for the palette is 140mA but with the modules in it I assume the draw is an unknown amount more than this. My rack has 160mA per slot and it seems likely that the dirt and grit bundle will be close to this? I want to stress that the world is a better place with diyre in it! Providing information about these details so builders better know what they are getting in to, will help secure the future of the company!

Diyre for the win!

Really great sounding units. Super fun to build! Easy to follow instructions.

Such an innovative platform!

I'm gonna have so fun with this platform I can tell. Anything that creates an opportunity for cross compatible formats in audio I think is a winner. The API 500 format initially did amazing things for the professional audio industry, and being able to swap in and out different modules into your modules is the next evolution of that. This really bridges the gap between the DIY world and the pro audio world and allows people who maybe wouldn't otherwise of been able to get into hardware really get the best of all worlds imho. I'm already thinking of ways I can mix and match modules in creative ways, and what order to use them in etc.