I missed documenting a couple repairs before I sent them home due to an Iphone/kitten mishap that left me without a way to take photos. Now I’m back with another Juno 106 repair. I finished repairing this one just as another client dropped off another Juno 106. They never stop coming! Continue reading “Roland Juno 106 (#2)”
The Korg Delta (or DL-50) is a string synth/polysynth hybrid from the late 1970s to early 80s, from the time when every synth company was focusing on those. I’ve got an Arp Omni 2 and Roland RS-09 of the same era here in the workshop right now and the Delta is my favorite of all three, even just based on its string sounds (to be fair, the RS doesn’t have a “synth” section). Continue reading “Korg Delta”
This was a pretty straightforward repair. The Juno 106 is one of those synths which tend to always have the same issues. One of the main ones is that the VCF/VCA voice chips, sometimes called voice cards, are very prone to failure. Continue reading “Roland Juno 106”
This one belongs to Jeff Zeigler, a great musician who also runs the studio Uniform Recording. The ARP Omni 2 is a synth where a lot can go wrong, but it has a very, very repetitive internal architecture so it’s often the same problems over and over– bad logic ICs and bad tantalum capacitors (blue circles in photo above). That doesn’t mean it’s easy to fix though!