Building Mutable Instruments Braids / Learning Hot Air Soldering

I need to learn SMD soldering so I picked up a PCB and parts for the classic eurorack digital oscillator, mutable instruments' Braids by Emilie Gillet. This version has been superseded in some ways by Plaits but I quite like the look of this one regardless. I tried out a couple different soldering techniques including classic tack-and-place with the iron and lead-free solder paste with a hot air station. The paste wasn't super easy but maybe leaded paste is better for DIY work. Along the way I fried a couple components and had to troubleshoot so I tried to give some insight into how I track that stuff down and fix it. The module sounds great! I needed to upgrade my case power supply after this build but that's massively improved with a separate digital power rail. Music used in this video: South London Hifi - Sunrise Drive - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ97iSq8YCQ Silent Partner - Blue Break - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82WS222HVUE Birocratic - Memory Card Full - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A56YTM7NwpU Mylar Melodies - Musik Von Melodies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmZgyIxkAaM