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Subject: Re: MOTM-300 questions/problems...

From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...
Date: 1999-10-09

How did your VCO sound? Any scratchy-ness?

Paul S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tkacs, Ken <Ken.Tkacs@...>
To: 'motm@onelist.com' <motm@onelist.com>
Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 11:19 AM
Subject: RE: [motm] MOTM-300 questions/problems...


>From: "Tkacs, Ken" <Ken.Tkacs@...>
>
>
>I'm hoping to build my first MOTM-300 VCO kit this weekend, so I'll let you
>know.
>
>I'm disappointed to hear about the 'scratchy' tuning pot. I used to use an
>old Electrocomp synth in my college music lab, and with that VCO you could
>smoothly sweep the oscillator from one end of the audio spectrum to the
>other with one twist of the big knob (it had a REALLY _big knob_). So it's
>not 'unavoidable.' Other synths I have used have had less range, but
>considering the high quality of the MOTM kits & components, I was really
>hoping for a smooth sweep like you're describing.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Speth [mailto:johns@...]
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 12:13 PM
> To: MOTM List (E-mail)
> Subject: [motm] MOTM-300 questions/problems...
>
> From: John Speth <johns@...>
>
> I'd like to compare notes with other builders to make sure
>nothing is wrong with my VCOs.
>
> 1. Tuning
>
> 2. Dirty coarse freq pot
>
> 3. Hard
>
> John Speth (just trying to understand it all)
>
>
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