Hi,
thanks for the reply,
I'm not 'too' bad at soldering, I repair phones, laptop dc power jacks etc on a fairly regular basis as part of my job but yeah you're right, I'll practice a bit more before I tackle this and building a clone is a great idea! :)
Ahh yes of course, tap in prior to the chorus board, following the video I read his description as that he'd replace the chorus circuit with overdrive (possibly as his chorus was dead) but your thoughts make much more sense. My question on this bit is.... which point do I tap into, I've had a look at the circuit diagrams but can't make it out. which wires to tap into on the loom to the chorus board would be a huge help.
Thanks again, I'll keep updates coming and post some piccies up as I tackle it.
Great forum, I'm glad the poly isn't being berated as it seems to be on most forums out there!!
p.s have you seen this young guy's stuff, get's some great sounds with a stock poly mk1 (vid gets better as it goes along)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhXTKiAbmow --- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Gordon JC Pearce <gordon@...> wrote:
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> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 10:24:22PM -0000, gixxer1052 wrote:
> > I'm handy with a soldering iron and have the schematics, but I'm afraid my electronics training was last in 1987 so most of it has leaked from my brain.
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> Practice your soldering on something you can afford to replace! Don't leap in and start hacking away at your beloves Poly 800 until you are confident in your ability to solder and desolder stuff without screwing things up beyond all hope of repair.
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> I just can't say this often enough, and yet still I get folk coming up to me with stuff that looks like it's been soldered with a red hot breadknife and saying "uh yeah it wasn't sounding right and I recapped it and now it doesn't work". Don't be that guy. That guy is a dick.
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> How do you get practice? Well, maybe you should build some kits? Oh, I know! Why not build some distortion pedal clones on veroboard? You can never have too many fuzzboxes. You need ∗more∗ fuzzboxes. Get building. Your first ones might suck a bit, but that's probably fine too. Use them for things that need to suck. It worked for Throbbing Gristle, right?
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> > Could somebody possibly tell me how i could do this mod? I've message the youtube user but he's hasn't responded, also how would I retain the stereo or split L/R mono, as it's going into a stereo reverb/delay unit.
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> There are a couple of ways to approach this. Chorusers work well on stuff with lots of upper partials - nice bright noises that it can comb filter away at. A good way to generate lots of harmonics is to clip the signal - with a fuzzbox! So, one way to do it would be to insert your fuzzbox between the synth board and the input of the choruser board. This would probably give you the most musically- and sonically-useful setup.
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> You could tap the distortion into the output of the choruser, but then you'd need two. You might get some interesting effects by distorting one side more than the other, and maybe mixing them back together in some proportion.
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> Let us know how it works out for you ;-)
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