GlowCat_

GlowCat_

@synthiaks.bsky.social

Sound Designer with a passion for electronics and synth repair... the more broken the better

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That answer hit the fan.. I'm so happy this isn't on X. The right wing troll/bot army would tear me apart already Here is a picture of a german lake I'm the evening, for good karma!

Finally fixed this baby today, the LED had me scratching my head before I realised that without external power being plugged in, the LED will fade out after 5s after the pedal is activated. That cost me hours though 😪

I couldn't help myself, so I almost finished the repair of the MicroMoog but decided to do a small modification to the LFO, making it possible to switch it to audio range That's what you see me do with the switch under the Modwheel. And yeah... this thing GRAWLS and has A LOT of low end. #synthsky

This is my first time working on a Moog. It was packed with sketchy looking foil caps. I removed them all, and none of them were even remotely within specs. I guess moog used them all over the production line, and maybe this is one of the reasons old minis are hard to get tuned?

In my fantasy the Assembly was done by a R(obert)A(rthur)M(oog)! I know, i know the middle letter is more of a D and Bob probably wasn't involved in any assembly in 1975. But just let me dream will ya! #synthsky

Just got this guy at the bench, a recap didn't do the trick so i had to dive deeper. Found 2 broken OPamps. But those original RC4149s are impossible to find. I stuck 2 LM324s in there for test and they play, but ordered a couple of LM246s wich should be more simmilar to the originals. #synthsky

Done! After way to much work, I'm now finally finished with this thing. I have done some super cool modifications to it that I will explain down below. It was thought that the Korg35 ICs were blown, but that wasn't true! Now, this baby sings better than from the factory #synthsky

Done! After way to much work, I'm now finally finished with this thing. I have done some super cool modifications to it that I will explain down below. It was thought that the Korg35 ICs were blown, but that wasn't true! Now, this baby sings better than from the factory #synthsky

So the mods are: 1 Synth one retrigger mod 2 Synth 1/2 Resonance 3 Synth 2 Resonance active 4 Brass Resonance 5 Brass Resonance active 6 Brass LFO filter mod deactivate

By Popular demand: here is a picture of a well usedYamaha SY-1, the fist synth Yamaha ever made. Later I'm going to tell you something interesting about it... #synthsky

The cost is also a big issue with all the AI tools, I'm not a freelancer but if you are this will be a problem down the line. Specially with audio post as we use so many 3 party software with Pro Tools. That already cost a fortune.

You are all lucky, tonight is Synthesizer Nerd information night: In the early MS20 the filter was done with Korgs own 35 IC, This is a small PCB with some SMD transistors and resistors forming a kind of rudimentary discreet state variable filter. In later versions this was done with OTAs. #synthsky

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