In fact the soldered wires were much easier to work with than the unsoldered connectors.
Putting three ground wires into a single pressure connector was not exactly easy when they are all twisted tightly. The ribbon cables were a nice addition to the BAD preamps, maid wiring take a lot less time, but wiring was probably the slowest part of the entire process. Now this was a mistake, for on the DI board of the second BAD I had a couple of bad solder joints, but I will get into that later. But once I got to the second board I knew I wanted to get done quickly (natural lighting was starting go down and I didn’t feel like finding my led light. The first board all in all probably took me about 3 hours to solder (that’s with the extra wired pots and going slow to reduce errors). While I was able to figure out what was needed it would have been nice to see a specific breakdown for resistor values and capacitor values for the 99v. There also are a good number of components that are omitted or that have different values based on the different opamps used. The main board layout is clear but relatively dense.
The build itself was relatively simple considering it was a kit with all the pieces I needed for construction.
