Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Discussion about the Korg PolySix synthesizer
Subject: fully recapping a vintage synth
From: jim@saltlands.com
Date: 2014-12-03
I know this is a tad off topic, but I'm wondering if anyone here has any thoughts about possible sonic negatives to doing this. I think of the recent video interview with the korg engineers who designed the ms-20, which was made and released as promo when the ms20 mini came out... The engineers mention in this interview that they think the ms 20 mini will only sound exactly like an original when it's been a few decades and the capacitors have aged.
So in this light, are we all in love with our aged capacitors? Or would a fully recapped polysix still sound warm?
Im considering doing this for the sake of clearing up stray issues now and in the future. I also am curious if it might even sound.. Better.
Of course it is assumed that recalibrations/tuning etc will then be needed. But couldn't a full scale bath like this be something very effective?