Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

previous by date index next by date
previous in topic topic list  

Subject: Re: [korgpolyex] Poly-800 Tape Dump

From: Martin Ator <cyllall@...>
Date: 2011-03-13

Thanks for your help everyone.

I stupidly forgot that it's actually mic in not tape in that's required.The moving coil explained it.  Line level is a different thing.
I dug my Beocord 8002 out, and made a din cable so I can use the mic input.
Anyway,now I can use the mic in, boost it, and send it back out of the Beocord into the PC.
Stupid brain. Does it make me look less stupid if I say it's Sunday, and I was on the brandy yesterday?
Will try the resistor change, as I'd rather be able to get dumps straight to the PC.

Thanks
Martin

From: Gordon JC Pearce <gordon@...>
To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, 13 March, 2011 12:05:15
Subject: Re: [korgpolyex] Poly-800 Tape Dump

 

On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 10:15 +0000, cyllall wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> The tape out on my Poly-800 is very quiet. Why is it every tape out,
> on every vintage synth is a whisper?
> It took me about 30 mins to find the circuit section on the
> schematics. I can't see any pots that I could maybe adjust to increase
> the gain. I've cleaned the socket and enable switch. No difference.
>
> I have boosted the output 40db with a pre amp, and then normalized the
> file with software, and can get a signal strong enough to play back
> in, so I have a work around.
> Why is it so quiet?
> Thanks
> Martin

Because it's intended to go into the mike level input of a tape
recorder, which is supposed to be used with a tiny cheap moving-coil
microphone.

Gordon MM0YEQ