beginner question - Where can I find more...

[precision345]

Where can I find more simple, beginner schematics like this one from Beavis Audio? I would love some more simple project schematic's that are like this so I can actually read them. I can't yet read electrical schematics

Can anyone help?

http://www.beavisaudio.com/projects/Looper-Switcher/index.htm

[mrsuspend]

Hi there,

General Guitar Gadgets have quite a few:
http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/how-to-build-it/technical-help/

Good Luck!
/Magnus

[smallbearelec]

A lot of beginner questions involve the relationship between schematic symbols and physical connection of real components. There are several tutorials and article in my How-Tos section:

http://diy.smallbearelec.com/HowTos/HowTos.html

that will help. Start with the article on the basics of breadboarding:

http://diy.smallbearelec.com/HowTos/Breadboarding/BreadboardIntro.htm

and take it from there.

[Jdansti]

Read through this:

http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=763.0

[Thecomedian]

Honestly, I feel the best method of getting to know this kind of thing is practice.  Get a few schematics and replace the symbols with pictures of the component that needs to go there, and then make sure that they're touching the right ends to the right wires that go between components. I personally didn't have a complex procedure when I started, it was simply to say that I start at this end of this component, and then find the other end and anything that connects to that end only, and then work from there.

I think with a procedural approach like that it doesn't really matter the size of the circuit, because you're always working with just a few components and a wire at every point.

[garcho]

Breadboard everything

[deadastronaut]

Breadboard everything

+1,000,000...

[R.G.]

Think about the first time you tried to get the high E string to seat on the first fret making a full F chord.

You learn schematics the same way you learned guitar; as comedian said, practice.

This is one reason I object to the practice of using online calculators. Their continued use inhibits, perhaps forever, the mental development needed to do it on your own.