[sdiy] Ideas on resonance problem on single OB-Xa voice

tprivitera at nc.rr.com tprivitera at nc.rr.com
Sat Feb 21 20:22:31 CET 2015


Hello everyone,

I wanted to see if anyone had any ideas on an issue I am having with the resonance on one of my OB-Xa's voice cards.  With patches that have more extreme resonance settings (ie: the resonant sweep patch 'C4' aka Van Halen 1984 patch), instead of sounding "whistling" at the top of the sweep, this voice sounds "buzzy", with no whistle, if that makes sense.  That voice sounds fine in other patches without resonance or with resonance at a lower setting.  Here is what I've done so far:

- Recapped all 7 electrolytics on the card
- Cleaned all the connections on the card and pins on the voice card motherboard that seat the card
- Pulled every chip on the card, cleaned pins and reseated a few times
- Swapped multiple CEM 3320 filter chips in to confirm it wasn't a bad chip
- calibrated the card correctly.

I've calibrated this whole synth several times in the years I owned it and since it's not a calibration issue and I've hit all the usually fixes, I'm kinda stuck.  Anyone have this specific problem before or can think of what might be causing this?

Thanks in advance,
Tim





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