Greetings!
So after totally frying my 3.2 and audio shield I decided to try it all again with a 4.0 replacement and shield (i got the audio shield that is for the 4.0). This time I was in and out super fast realizing that it helps if you use a soldering iron that actually heats up and melts the solder quickly. As you can see by these photos, I'm definitely no Da Vinci of the soldering world and have likely zero innate talent when it comes to melting metal so that it attaches to small components in an elegant fashion.
Still, i'm able to get blinky and all the basic initial examples to compile and actually work no problem still so I know at least I didn't fry the thing. When I run the audio->hardware testing->sdcardtest though and click onto the serial monitor, it runs the sd initializer and returns this message:
SD card is not connected or unusable :-(
Is there anything else besides simply continuing to solder and resolder all the joins together that may help me here? Thanks!