[sdiy] The Aelita 321 synth.

[John Henson]

Hi all,
has anyone out there worked on and repaired an Aelita monosynth, and if 
so what issues were found and what was the end result? There is an 
amount of glam talk on Forums about the aggressive sounds and how they 
are built like tanks, the former I agree with but the latter definitely 
not, and I find all Russian equipment an endless series of grief 
moments, and this is not due to the Cyrillic text and schematics, but 
every detail of the construction, the connector systems, those soft 
cheese head screws whose bolts are sealed with insoluble paint and the 
screw heads die before the bolt will let go, the sense of over 
engineering, and poor, on the chassis and a complete lack of it in most 
other regards. BTW I have an equally poor opinion of the Polivoks, it 
might have been ok when new but time has not been kind, try stripping 
and cleaning one pot of a Polivoks, anyone who has done this will know 
where I am going with this. A lot of people wax lyrical about Russian 
synths but you wouldn't if you had to fix them...

John