HOWA EP153 - TIM EXILE PART 2

Yeah, and during the holidays, I definitely have made plenty of music.

My setup in the main room, the German setup, still prevails.

The longest setup I think I've ever had.

This time, it's taken quite a turn because I stripped out the Moog Opus 3, which I really love.

I'm looking at it right now, actually.

It's in my other room where I'm recording this vocal recording.

really like that little thing

man that's an underdog machine it's not quite got the kind of the magic i suppose in some people's eyes uh but oh a sleeper and totally up my alley anyway that's come out you'd think he likes it so much why did he remove it well because i pulled out of storage my old profit five and actually when i pulled it out it had a weird problem One octave of the Prophet 5 was just completely out of whack.

The rest, fine.

So I opened it up and found there's a little ribbon cable basically inside there which carries the information from the keybed to the rest of the synth.

And I was figuring that that was probably the culprit.

So I unplugged that, did some careful deoxit on it using paper.

I've kind of learned a trick with paper when I was working on the Farfeasors.

You can like soak a bit of paper in deoxit and then use that paper to sort of rub on pins.

So you get kind of a bit of a mild abrasive rubbing action.

Nothing too harsh because I think the pins are coated and you don't want to be too rough on them.

But so paper is quite, you know, low impact.

Did that, you know, plugged it back in, sort of finagled it, kept the kind of guts of the machines of open so I could turn it on and try what's happened.

And it sort of fixed it.

But I was pressing on the cable and that was making it work.

And I was like, oh, no, no.

This is on the other side of the board where the ribbon meets the main board.

And you have to pull out a lot of stuff to get to that.

And I'm not really, I'm not that good at doing these kind of repairs.

I've suddenly got the fear.

Yeah, and during the holidays, I definitely have made plenty of music.

My setup in the main room, the German setup, still prevails.

The longest setup I think I've ever had.

This time, it's taken quite a turn because I stripped out the Moog Opus 3, which I really love.

I'm looking at it right now, actually.

It's in my other room where I'm recording this vocal recording.

really like that little thing

man that's an underdog machine it's not quite got the kind of the magic i suppose in some people's eyes uh but oh a sleeper and totally up my alley anyway that's come out you'd think he likes it so much why did he remove it well because i pulled out of storage my old profit five and actually when i pulled it out it had a weird problem One octave of the Prophet 5 was just completely out of whack.

The rest, fine.

So I opened it up and found there's a little ribbon cable basically inside there which carries the information from the keybed to the rest of the synth.

And I was figuring that that was probably the culprit.

So I unplugged that, did some careful deoxit on it using paper.

I've kind of learned a trick with paper when I was working on the Farfeasors.

You can like soak a bit of paper in deoxit and then use that paper to sort of rub on pins.

So you get kind of a bit of a mild abrasive rubbing action.

Nothing too harsh because I think the pins are coated and you don't want to be too rough on them.

But so paper is quite, you know, low impact.

Did that, you know, plugged it back in, sort of finagled it, kept the kind of guts of the machines of open so I could turn it on and try what's happened.

And it sort of fixed it.

But I was pressing on the cable and that was making it work.

And I was like, oh, no, no.

This is on the other side of the board where the ribbon meets the main board.

And you have to pull out a lot of stuff to get to that.

And I'm not really, I'm not that good at doing these kind of repairs.

I've suddenly got the fear.