Nice box = nice sound

[Tony Allgood]

Hi all,

Finally got around to fitting my polysynth with the Scheaffer front
panel. It looks fantastic and I am sure it sounds better. Now that I
know what each control knob actually does it's a lot more conducive to
making new sounds. Blank panels, no matter how nicely painted, are not
as good as ones with labels on them.

A word of warning though. When resoldering one of the Spectrol multiturn
pots (VCO tune), one of the connections became unstuck inside the pot.
After that the tuning went most peculier, and I had to replace it with a
conventional pot for a short term fix. So, be careful with those
multiturns. They are not cheap either, 5UKP each.

Now I will have to put a new front panel on my two monosynths. But the
Scheafer program costed it at 200DM. Ouch. Perhaps, next month.

THANKS to everyone who told me the SSM2139 was a 5532 type thing. I
might actually get around to using them now.

Regards,

Tony Allgood, Cumbria, UK

Rack mounted moog filter and the TB3030 SuperBassline projects:

http://aupe.phys.andrews.edu/diy_archive/schematics/oakley/