Rhodes Chroma Polaris

> From: Dan Stefacek
> 
> My Polaris has worked fine for many, many years. It has been 
> turned on pretty much nonstop for 20 years. No problems. 
> Recently I did a rare live show, and turned the beast off to 
> move it. When I turned it on again, all the panel LEDs lit 
> and there was no sound. Unplugging and replugging the pedal 
> and sustain switch jacks seemed to clear up the problem. LEDs 
> went back to their regular behavior and the correct sounds 
> returned. When I moved the synth back home, I got the same 
> weirdness with the LEDs all lighting and no sound, but 
> replugging jacks and cycling power didn't have any effect for 
> a day or so. Then, about a day later, it seemed to work: the 
> LEDs went back to their correct settings, and the sounds came 
> back. But they are all at about a quarter of their previous 
> volume. I tried doing the adjustments listed on page 108 of 
> the manual. But there is a problem with those directions. 
> They instruct you to "turn the MASTER slider all the way up", 
> and then to "raise the MASTER slider until you hear the note 
> just begin to bleed through". I don't understand how you can 
> raise the slider any more after it is "all the way up". I 
> haven't had any luck playing around with this. I have tried 
> pressing LF, Adjustments,9 twice, without any perceptible 
> change. Anyone ever run across this weirdness? Thanks!!

I think that means that you begin by turning the master volume all the way
up, so you can better hear the bleedthrough when you begin to do the actual
adjustment.

-- 

Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...