Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

> Also, any pictures?

And put my soldering skills up for public ridicule?

Yeah, sure, I will after I do the missing joystick board "mod" this
weekend...

Good luck. with your mods...it was fairly easy...

-Tim




--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Alec Jahn <ocedtotehmax@...> wrote:
>
> Also, any pictures?
> 
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Alec Jahn <ocedtotehmax@...> wrote:
> 
> > Excellent!  I was going to do both of these as well, but realized
Wednesday
> > that I only had one 50k pot and no decent-looking switches.  Lame...
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:04 AM, serotonic_sound
<sero-tonic@...>wrote:
> >
> >>   I just finished the filter mod complete with 12/24
> >> switch...NICE!...Sure feels better to have
> >> some knobs to turn...
> >>
> >> I removed the wrong capacitor the first time...hahaha whoops..but it
> >> wasn't hard to fix...I
> >> need all the soldering practice I can get...
> >>
> >> I changed the design a bit from the instructions...I actually
took the
> >> capacitor right off the
> >> board and wired it up on the switch terminal side--seems much
more sturdy
> >> that way to
> >> me...
> >>
> >> Moog Slayer? heh nice try...not even close... The machine definitely
> >> sounds way better in
> >> 12 db/oct mode though ... I probably will never flip the switch
back to 24
> >> except to hear
> >> how much better it sounds when I switch it back to 12 :) Seriously
> >> everyone, do the 12/24
> >> mod if you haven't done it...the difference is not really subtle at
> >> all...The board sounds
> >> much more "open" in 12 mode...To my ears the filter on the poly
sounds
> >> quite "closed" by
> >> nature so this really helps....maybe its just the weird envelope
> >> structure...
> >>
> >> The resonance is totally over the top...way, way, way over the top
> >> really...I don't know
> >> what the big deal is with self resonance personally...apparently
this is
> >> desirable to some
> >> people. Who exactly?, I donno, but I have no problem listening to
some
> >> serious flying
> >> through space acid-psi tracks and this resonance is WAAAAAY to
much for
> >> me...
> >>
> >> I definitely think we need a "tame the resonance" mod. Any ideas
anyone?
> >> Can we just
> >> throw a resistor in there somewhere?
> >>
> >> Off to the electronics store tomorrow for the final project, for now
> >> anyway, "Missing
> >> Joystick Board 'mod'"...I'll yet you know how that one
goes...thanks for
> >> your help Mike...
> >>
> >> l8r
> >> -Tim
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >
> >
>