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Re: New Oddy

2006-11-03 by John Koumoutseas

Yes it is fixable it is a common chip. I don't have thae schematics 
in fron of me but I think it's a CD4001.  Cheap too.
John
--- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "iwishiwascrying" 
<iwishiwascrying@...> wrote:
>
> is the chip fixable? or am i out of luck : /
> 
> --- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "John Koumoutseas"
> <john@> wrote:
> >
> > The slider could be bad but it think it's most likely that the 
chip 
> > in the oscillator circuit is bad.  That is usuall most common.  
John
> > 
> > --- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, Mike B 
> > <moremodernmusic@> wrote:
> > >
> > > It could be dirt in the slider on the mixer control.  You 
could 
> > try using an electrical spray cleaner (Contact Control Cleaner 
and 
> > Lubricant from Radioshack)  and working the slider back and 
fourth.  
> > I had a single oscillator issue like thin on mine and this 
seemed to 
> > fix it along with cleaning the frequency coarse adjustment.   I 
hope 
> > this helps.  
> > > 
> > > iwishiwascrying <iwishiwascrying@> wrote:          So i 
> > recieved an odyssey and everything is fine with it except i
> > > cannot get any sound to come from the second osc. Im not sure 
what 
> > the
> > > problem could be or if there is anything i can do myself to 
fix 
> > this.
> > > I live in a place where there arent many people who know how 
to 
> > fix a
> > > synth let alone an arp. Thanks for the help!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >          
> > > 
> > >  		
> > > ---------------------------------
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> > >
> >
>

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