clubbedtodeath wrote:Wham! The Music Box got me into it. Two synth parts and a drum kit!

Ah, I remember that!



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Fantastic! Cheers for that.

Either that, or standard 1/8" minijacks, depending on the gear. You can use any standard cables, or make your own using the regular stuff. I make mine using thinner, shielded audio, cable. The Kenton units have mini-jacks on them, but many synths have 1/4" sockets, so I have a range of lengths and a...

A Sinclair Spectrum back in '82. Then some mid-80s portasound-type gear. Then synth music, and wanting to make it myself with proper gear as the stuff in school (late 80s) was out of bounds - DX stuff and Aplha Juno and TR stuff and multitrack tape that belonged to the teachers, though they occasion...

There was a great article about the Eminent 310 in Sound On Sound a couple of months back. You have to subscribe to get acces online to it though. I usually use my Junos for strings, they're great with that chorus II switched in... if a little big sometimes. The Roland RS 101 is a little more squash...

I've a basement studio too, and rather than use a dehumidifier I have a fan vent with a heat exchange unit inside. Running on low, it uses about 20W, and is pretty quiet, though I'd turn it off while using a mic. If you run a dehumidifier whilst a window is open, you're wasting power - a specialist ...

We need more detail. But MrC has a point. You don't want to pass AC through a circuit designed for DC. Does the circuit have built-in rectification? I doubt a filter would use more than 30 or 40 mA per rail, if that, so almost any supply will do. You also need to make sure polarised caps are inserte...

Mr Rich wrote:I'm not going to explain how it works...

For a minute there, I thought you were going to spoil us

This is fascinating. Good luck with it!

You'd need to replace the transformers and possibly associated components - which might be more trouble than it's worth. You might not be able to find parts with the same dimensions or mounting holes etc. I know what you mean about the step-downs, I have two and one of them screams like crazy - no e...

Would it be really difficult to change the power supply of the keyboard so that I could use a 240 volt power supply? That's what the wall-wart supply does... If you have a little DIY knowledge, you could build your own sturdy supply, or you could replace the cable on an existing one, or even just r...

Its not any different that windows and suffers from the exact same problems for the exact same reasons. Macs and PC's run on the same hardware and this is 100% a hardware issue. Only the newer macs run intel chips - is that what you meant? Or do the older powerpc chips class as the same hardware? I...

Sir Ruff did sell me a synth, he did, and truly t'was packed like a treasure of old with many soft linings of paper and board, and a case, big black and bold. This worthy knight sent gear in flight near half way 'cross the earth, So my joy I sing at this merry thing, and Sir Ruff hath prov'd his wo...

Yep, this was used in quite a few synths circuits. It is just a matched heated transistor pair. If you were techy enough, you could replace it & a couple of related components with something modern and common, but it's probably an ugly little job. There's no reason why the circuit would sound parti...

Yep, this was used in quite a few synths circuits. It is just a matched heated transistor pair. If you were techy enough, you could replace it & a couple of related components with something modern and common, but it's probably an ugly little job. There's no reason why the circuit would sound partic...