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Subject: Re: [korg_mono-poly] Noisy sounding after full capacitors replacement.

From: Florian Anwander <fanwander@mnet-online.de>
Date: 2013-03-21

Hello


Am 21.03.2013 13:19, schrieb dir_marillion:
> The instrument was working perfect before the Capacitors replacement,
Is there anything you should learn from ? ;-)


> but they were in bad condition so they had to be replaced, before we
> have any serious issue.
What was the "bad condition"?

Did you replace them with the same type?

In general recapping in 30 years old synths is not required beside a few
exceptions: 1.) Tantalum capacitors. 2.) Caps in the power supply, if
they are close to the regulators heat sinks.

Recapping of the audiopath makes sense in large professional mixing
consoles, which ran continously for 30 years 24/7 without beeing
switched off. In these consoles the continuous heat inside the console
can dry out the capacitors. But a synth usually never "lives" under such
conditions.

Florian