synthesizer repair in Philadelphia
Work Done: This one got a thorough keybed/key contact cleaning and just the basic maintenance I always do (new PSU capacitors, new patch memory battery, cleaned controls). The owner had made some pretty cool patches which I dumped and restored through the “tape interface.” Continue reading “Roland JX-3P (#2)”
When I started working on it, this JX-3P looked like a feral synthesizer that had lived in the forest. It was rusty, the legends had been scraped off in many places, the plywood bottom piece was rotting requiring it to be held together with tape, and it was spattered with literal mud. It had also been subjected to one of the strangest DIY repair attempts I’ve seen yet. Someone tried to overcome some bad key contacts by squirting some of that yellow expanding spray foam insulation stuff into the tops of a few of the rubber key contact strips. Guess what… it didn’t work. Continue reading “Roland JX-3P”