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Hi list,

a friend has asked me to come up with a few patterns for one of his 
tracks. I dug out the SDS-3 since the controller part (read: Chroma) of 
my studio is lying in pieces on the living room floor and most power 
cords are unplugged.
I hooked the SDS-3 to it's pads and soon discovered that channel 1-3 
sends it's sound to separate output 1-3 while channel 4 sends its to mix 
output where channel 1-3 do not appear. Annoying when on headphones with 
the kids sleeping a floor below.
Is this a famous english "design" flaw or just loose wires in my unit? I 
cannot remember having experienced this before. On the other hand I 
might not have used all four channels at one time and therefor have 
missed it.

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electronically yours, jesper

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If ch4 is working on mix out, the final summing transistor is ok. I bet, the ch4 individual out jack has a problem. And if the chs 1-3 appear on their individual outs, you are lucky because it's only a matter of cut wires. May be the former owner tried to eliminate crosstalk or "sing through" by cutting or desoldering the wires, who knows.
Yours
Michael 

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Michael Buchner skrev 2010-12-06 18:19:
> If ch4 is working on mix out, the final summing transistor is ok. I bet,
> the ch4 individual out jack has a problem. And if the chs 1-3 appear on
> their individual outs, you are lucky because it's only a matter of cut
> wires. May be the former owner tried to eliminate crosstalk or "sing
> through" by cutting or desoldering the wires, who knows.

Thanks Michael. I spoke to Tom (former owner, also on the list) offlist 
and he remembered a bit about it. I'll dig into it one of these days. 
Doesn't sound too messy.

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electronically yours, jesper

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