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Re: [PolySix] Re: KiwiSix/Polysix, Two voices gone out of tune?

2014-03-20 by Stephen Laughlin

This is so incredibly weird. I took it up to my repair guy, plugged it in, and straight away each voice sounded perfectly in tune. I got the feeling he may have thought I was just being really picky about the tuning. I left it with him for half an hour and he said it went sightly off while warming up, but he corrected it. I tried it again, and it it was pretty goddamn good across all octaves. So I just brought it home, and what do you know, I plug it in and BOOM, two of the voices are almost a half-step higher once again. What the hell! I tried it on another amplifier in the house in a different room and I get the same thing. I feel like my Polysix is that dancing frog from the old WB cartoon who refuses to perform for anyone but its owner.


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:10 PM, <swamp.gigs@googlemail.com> wrote:

The old version has the KLM 396 on a daughter board mounted on the KLM 366 voice board - the later revision doesn't.
Trimpots 10 and 11 are in the same place on both.
After installing the KiwiSix was the Poly recalibrated ?
If everything is fine other than the tuning of the 2 voices, then trimpots 10 (high) and 11 (low) is what needs adjusted...


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