[sdiy] The Aelita 321 synth.

[Roman Sowa]

Man, when did you install probes in my brain?! That's all my thoughts 
exactly but I'm reluctant to say that "out loud", and not that fluent in 
English anyway.
May I also add terrible crappy knobs that are more suited for plumbing 
valves than a synth. Cases bent here and there probably because of heavy 
hammer used in construction process. Noisy, wobbly keyboard. About 1kg 
of overal heavy weight comes with standoffs, bars and bolts.

But anyway Polivoks are great! I have to say that because small part of 
my income comes from servicing them and I loose that if they will not be 
so wanted as now. BTW, I have a guy cleaning the pots for me, I'm so mean ;)

I never worked with Aelita though. BTW, wy impression of Russian synths 
came after I opened Elektronika EM-25. Quickly closed it and sold "as is".

The bottom line, servicing those synths is hard stuff. If you can buy 
one that claims to be fully serviced and it's cheap - that's invitation 
to troubles.

Roman

W dniu 2014-08-30 00:17, John Henson pisze:
> 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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