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Re: perhaps useful to some

2006-04-06 by rakky

Thanks for this info.

It actually confirms something I've been doing for a while:

Boss Dr-55 drum machines often will not play back, and behave oddly 
in program mode. Replacing the 4011 chip (I always us a socket, 
too), can sort this out. Not always, though, and I haven't worked 
out why. I suspect differences between the tolerances on the modern 
chips and the old ones.

The same thing applies to Soundmaster SR-88s and related machines, 
they all use 4011s.


 


--- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "Gareth Jenkinson" 
<gareth.jenkinson@...> wrote:
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> hey chris, thanks for this.  i'm pretty new to repairing, 
confident with a
> soldering iron from years of making up guitar leads etc but 
lacking an
> electronics backround.  this information is really useful.
> 
> if anyone has similar resources, please post them.  i'm sure there 
are a lot
> of inexperienced people like me on the list desperate for tips...
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> cheers
> gareth
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> On 05/04/06, chris_nairn <chris_nairn@...> wrote:
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> > http://www.oldcrows.net/~oldcrow/synth/tips.txt
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