I'm not a musician. I've not trained in any capacity and i don't know how to play an instrument. I got into eurorack/modular a couple of years ago when I found out about VCV Rack and have been messing around with it since. I hated the fact that I couldn't touch and press and twist anything that was represented because it was a piece of software.
Since then I have started saving up and have got myself a 7u case and some modules. It is immensely satisfying to interact with the modules in a more tactile way. I have a vague idea where I'm going with the case, but the more I look at my setup on modulargird the more nervous I become that I'm doing something wrong. This is not helped by the fact that there are dozens of choices in the eurorack format and you could replace one module with something different and that just makes the chance of me making the "wrong" choice even higher.
I've been spiraling down this hole of thoughts for a couple of days.
This is a hobby for me. I appreciate the variety and complexity of all the modules out there but even after messing around with VCV for two years I find that the cost(not just financial) of entry is quite steep. Everyone keeps saying that "you need to plan your system on what you need" but I find that this piece of advice is quite infuriating. I DON't strictly need a system for this. I could continue doing whatever I do in software and keep the cost of entry and continuing the hobby a bare minimum. But i will at the end of the day, will still be frustrated that I can't turn a knob or slide a fader. There a tactile nature to hardware that I will never find in a software emulation of hardware, however good it may sound. I feel a childlike glee when I touch my case and make sounds with the five modules that I have. It feels like I am in a pulpy sci fi spaceship. It's a weird kind of catch-22 with hardware where you do kind of NEED to know what you're getting into before diving into it. But from where I'm standing, i just want to make some weird noises and have some fun touching my system.
It also is quite paradoxical that I should be as freaked out as I am if that is my goal. But the amount of money that I've spent already is quite a lot for me; I don't really do spending that kind of money on myself, especially on a hobby. So I when I set out on this venture I thought that I would get only the modules that fit in my case.
And that is why now I'm having second thoughts about assembling a case because I'm scared that I'm slowly going to find out that there is something drastically structurally wrong with what I have bought. It already feels like a scene in a western movie where the outlaws have rigged the train and blown up the bridge and me as a passenger on the train can do nothing but stare and try in vain to tug at the brake before I inevitably plunge to my death
TL;DR Freaking out about making my first rack please help :'(
This is the rack I've planned so far. I could really do with some advice/reassurance that this one is ok.
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