Analog synthesizer repair, parts, sales, and innovation. I buy broken synthesizers!
I begin the restoration of a very rare (one of ~35 made) ARP 2600 Grey Meanie. I bought this ARP totally dead and intend to do a full restoration of it before I sell it.
Its previous owner thought the power supply was broken, so we check it out and locate the real problem. But, as should be done with every vintage synth, we rebuild the power supply.
If you’d like me to make more videos as I repair and restore this ARP 2600, please let me know!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF80J4qNdtI
I give a quick demo of the functionality of the Yamaha SK-10 analog synthesizer, and perform a light service on it–cleaning switches and sliders and recapping the power supply. This keyboard is currently for sale on my site.
I restore Tim’s broken ARP Omni 2, rebuilding the power supply, replacing all the polarized capacitors, enhancing the filter, adding my LED sliders, and refurbishing the keybed.
In this 3 part series, I repair a poor unfortunate LinnDrum that got wet and very ill.
In the first part, I take a look at some of the problems we’re having, displays are all 0’s, many sounds don’t work and there’s weird and random noise coming from the machine. We rebuild the power supply and clean the sliders and switches.
In this second part, we troubleshoot and repair the electronics causing several of the drum sounds not to work, and track down and repair the phantom “random noises” coming from the LinnDrum.
In the last part, we figure out why the LinnDrum always displays “00” and fix it. Then we install some rechargeable batteries and test everything out. LinnDrum is back to good health. Yay!
