I recently got my hands on a Roland Jupiter-6 a few days ago (for $500 in sweet condition! tee-hee! I'm still giddy!) and I was planning on opening it up, dusting it's guts, and cleaning its pots and pans. I was hoping someone could tell me the most effective method of removing the grit from the sliders, etc.
I was also wondering if it is worth it to install the Europa firmware upgrade for this synth. Thanks.
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The best way to clean out sliders is to use the cans of compressed air they sell for cleaning out computers. Then follow the compressed air with a potientiometer cleaner such as DeOxit, or something like it from radioshack. That should work in about 90% of cases, but sometimes sliders are just too far gone and must be replaced. As for the Europa upgrade, I've never heard one, nor played with a Jupiter 6 that had it, but around here anyone that has a JP-6 with the Europa modification is worshipped. I've never heard anyone say anything bad about the upgrade. Anyway, great price for such an awesome synthesizer, I wish I could find one for that kind of money.
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