[sdiy] The Aelita 321 synth.

[Anders Sponton]

O second that. I repaired an Aelita earlier this year. Bad kbd. It was a nightmare with all the screws. Crappy shit altogether.

Anders, Sweden


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30 aug 2014 kl. 00:17 skrev John Henson <synthnerd at eircom.net>:

> 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
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