Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

Were both units unmodified? Depending on how the mod was performed, just adding those pots can make a big difference in sound.  
Heres how i did mine. Before doing anything i measured the resistance of the factory trim pots. After that i carefully removed them. Then i installed the pots and an on/off switch for the moog slayer mod. I wired the mod circuit to the "on" position and wired the original trims to the "off" position. I taped them up and rechecked the resistance to make sure it hadnt changed.  That way i can select the modified powered filter circuit or the completely original stock circuit.
I can tell you that engaging the slayer mod makes a big difference in sound, regardless of where the new pots are set to, simply because of the extra power to the filter. 

Were both Poly's stock?

Thanks, Lucifer


Jill Saphic <jill_saphic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>hello!
>Ive heard them both in the same room at the same time.
>The green one and the black one.
>The Mark I is louder, and has more low-low mids.
>And it's bass patches were very noticably thicker sounding.
>Also, the number of useful patches is a lot better on that Mark 1.
>The chorus being a programmable parameter is super important
>to the foundation of the sounds in the first place, especially strings, 
>some of those OB horn sounds, The EP sounds, 
>and that wicked cello sound it has. and those two part sounds, 
>like the ones that start as a bell, then morph onto a bowed string,
>and the Sound FX using the noide generator need that chorus.
>But using the solo sounds on the Mark 2 was more fun with its
>delay turned way up. 2 bad they didn't just add the delay in the Mark
>2 instead of replacing the chorus with it. THAT would have been something!!!
>--- On Sat, 24/11/12, Martin Ator <cyllall@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>From: Martin Ator <cyllall@yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [korgpolyex] Poly800 Vs Poly800MK2
>To: "korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com" <korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com>
>Date: Saturday, 24 November, 2012, 13:42
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>Maybe because the MK2 has a digital delay effect they had to reduce the volume to reduce the chance of clipping? You wouldn't have this problem with the analogue chorus in the same way maybe.
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>From: krikorola <krikorola@gmail.com>
>To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com 
>Sent: Saturday, 24 November 2012, 12:42
>Subject: [korgpolyex] Poly800 Vs Poly800MK2
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>i made a A/B between my Mk2 and a friends V1 poly800, setting up the same value for all parameters, chorus/delay off, i get a very big difference of level output, my MK2 sounds a lot lower and thinner. The V1 has a filter cut off and res potard added to it, but that's the only mod i think that was done to it.
>Anybody ever did a A/B on unmodified ones? do you think it's normal?
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>K
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