Vintage Synth Repair

On Sunday 09 March 2008 19:34, nau.dylan wrote:
> Well, I sent my Arp to a repair guy.  It came back and it worked for about
> an hour.  I went upstairs, came back an hour later and same thing,
> "extremely low output". Heres what the repair guy did.  "repaired caps in
> audio path around filter, lubed and cleaned switches/sliders, reflowed
> solder connections around ADSR path, cleaned audio connectors".  I can hear
> the filter working, The ADSR is also working as I can hear the attack
> slider working too.  Could it be something in the output section or
> something? I've noticed that the Odyssey has quite a hum/buzz to it even
> when it is turned off.  The Buzz goes away if I take the power cable out
> but otherwise is still there even when unit is turned off.

That sounds to me like you might have an issue with either the cable you're 
using to take the output from,  or perhaps the input of the amplifier you're 
driving.  I'd try a different cable first,  see if anything changes...


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